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• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at ... each other while taking a break from psets late at night.  All of ... Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my fraternity home was pelted with snow. Seriously, look at the view from our ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... ’re not up lol (okay if not, just thought to offer) I'll probably be awake ... bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I ... the basement of the student center, and use it to buy food at dining ... , and it doesn't run out at the end of the semester, either - it just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  .  (The flags at left are in the order of team finish.) In the end, it was ... On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... feel the strength of each personality taking up space in the conference ... talking to dozens of high schoolers about ridiculous survival scenarios

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  , which was scheduled to leave at 9:30AM. My head was full of questions ...  hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  didn't have a lot of pre-reqs and didn't seem overly technical at first ... ="academic planner for MIT students to plan out their degrees, test out paths for ... abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  (whose number I still can't remember), a monthly metro pass, my own desk at ... here Saturday afternoon and was met at the airport by Mónica, who is the sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . 10:49 -- Shouts of "Oreos at front desk?" abound from down the hallway ... . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  culmination of almost everything I've studied at MIT, from computer architecture ... Processing) This class is one of the most fun classes I've taken at MIT. Not ... write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  paid a small amount by the company, but at the end of the competition one ... January is IAP (Independent Activities Period) here at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... 'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  [intro]We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it. (250 words maximum)[/intro]   If you are familiar with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC ... you to better understand the ROTC programs here at MIT.   ROTC is more ... laboratory, infantry officer school followed by command of an Army or Marine

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer ... ’t help but feel a small bit of envy. At the time, it seemed to be ... at MIT. It’s not as if all of my friends are doing something, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  on the way back at 5 am. Sadly, MIT doesn't have either of these papers ... existed. These schools all get to offer their students privledges at MIT ... Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005