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  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  multicolored lights of Boston reflected in the Charles River at night, especially ... . Random Hall had pancakes at 2:17 in the morning. In fact, they had lots of ... Battle of the Bands or 2 AM at Random Hall. I don't like everything about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... doubled- I HAVE AT LEAST 8 BOSSES! In honor of my 3rd week on the west

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of ... " competition. At Curious George (where many of my friends went for the Book 5 ... So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split ... light? I certainly did at the end of our tour because our zoologist was ... eternity staring at tarantulas. (It turned out that one of the other groups

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  everyday we do a hike, pack a picnic, swim in some cold lake at the middle of ... common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  Centre of the Peoples of the Amazon before then. At the Cultural Center ... It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  hard together, harder than we think at any other time of the year ... friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at ... the Big Game and at this school are a kind of "type 2 fun". Here is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  anyway. *** The most common piece of advice I've gotten since arriving at ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  at something that complicated and sort of maybe understood a bit of how ... One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  future blog) and are where a significant portion of learning happens at ... concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or ... subject at hand, but these aren't the type of intense supervisor I want to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... actually smart enough to perform at this fabulous school with you amazing people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  component, down the leads of the plushy, and are soldered to magnetic snaps at ... . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  King, Jr., weekend during IAP. Teams of people at MIT and people who just ... puzzles of puzzles, and there are also puzzles of puzzles of puzzles. At the ... decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  technology at the end of our field trials. Compost bin support: Following our ... with trash: At our third session at at A New Day Cambodia, the team of ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  clothes are allowed at this party. I'm not a big fan of public nudity, so I ... supportive of athletics, but at the same time, those are prime dinner hours ... idea. It's kind of hard to find a balance at first. I generally eat my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... , were our special guests at our annual convention in November. And of ... ! Lots and lots of amazing math art on display at the Bridges conference

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016