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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  get a letter from home reminding you that people are thinking about you ... things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... Catch reruns for 14 hours a day. You could easily become a Facebook addict

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  engineering at MIT and later a Masters in Public Health from Emory University ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... have one, from Discover Nuclear Science & Engineering to Discover

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  the following mysterious text from a sophomore in my sorority, Alpha Phi ... only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  I think the saying "a penny for your thoughts?" is really rather ... face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that other folk sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  a few weeks later, I got another email from Apple.  The iPad product ... start straying from your desired course. In short, controlling attitude is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  better vibe, and decide from there. Worst case scenario you email a lab who ... This past Friday, I was in lab from [annotation note='IMPORTANT NOTE ... get no important results!! If this sounds fun to you, you should do a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  enjoy making it on nights when we're brain-fried from a linguistics ... from the top of the tallest building in Cambridge. Tell that to me a year ... ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid twenty minutes because I showed up too early. Pretty soon, I grabbed a seat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  've been chugging work from such a consistent, ever ... a hall exchange with my friend Jessica T. '20 from Next House for a ... say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  something related to psychology. Perhaps university students from a psychology ... Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering fire pits, grazing water buffalo and men hauling logs. Occasionally, a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... what? I built a loft from scratch!!! Been sleeping on it for two weeks ... from making a dangerous (or uncomfortable) mistake. We spent maybe an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  are that rehearsing new music from scratch is hard, and arranging is a ... -person concert theme, from fall of 2019, was liOhm king. to pick a concert theme we ... of our other songs was does anybody have a map (from dear evan hansen

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  warm homemade dinners. A late-evening meal at Random Hall tonight was prepared by a group of residents on Pecker floor and generously shared between the entire constitution of Pecker, plus a few friends from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  heard a barely audible groan from right over your left shoulder? Students ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  of classes, work, and free time. We got a four-day weekend for Columbus ... especially noteworthy going on right now, let's just have a look at what's on ... a couple of construction projects in front of my door, which happens

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  the book for my sister at a discount, and personalized signatures from ... through the aisles of bookseller booths from all over the world was a ... more exciting books to admire from a distance. … The prices were

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  and deserved reprieve from a long day at work (everything in moderation ... if someone is from around here (or at least a comparable city by size ... ’t despair! I, too, was a public transportation rookie, hailing from Southern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  , ah, skivved the tl;dr from a friend instead.   Trials and ... browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... , started designing a show-and-tell style fashion class. Drawn in by peer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  -but-not-necessarily-recommended-eateries around MIT but suffered a minor aneurysm from food nostalgia overload and ... way that mankind buys food from the back of a truck. I assert that only ... model (involves Twitter and a friendly, candid blog from the owner that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009