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• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  into twelve teams of a hundred-ish students each, and the top team at the ... , exploding kittens excels at it's ease of entry. The game can be fully ... at MIT, but time was running out. A lot of things to consider, a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  until the end of freshman year, at which point we can declare "undeclared ... though, do you know of anyone at MIT who was a member of FIRST, or recieved ... Neha is a male) was the team leader of FIRST at her school, and basically

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  of a scientist or engineer is what makes artists at MIT so good at ... tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she ... doing theater at MIT was because the Musical Theater Guild was performing

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE requirement[/caption] [caption id="attachment_104349" align="aligncenter" width

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  especially helpful at the end of the weekend. How to get into their room ... to offer (and stuff your face with free food!). Join a fun group of ... Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... friends seemed like a nearly impossible concept. At the beginning of FPOP ... better when I see one of my members smile brightly at me and stop to have a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  2400. A close friend of mine (who is now at Dartmouth) got a 2350 using ... put passive studying at the start, middle, and end of all my study ... also good at doing the same thing for a wider range of topics. I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved ... , where you make reference to it. Summarize your points at the end of each ... grade shot up to the bar I set for myself, way back at the beginning of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular ... The Planets suite. While the orchestra played, Spock sat at the front of ... ’s chair at the front of the stage was right next to the conductor, so that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... Mondays and Wednesdays for recitation (my recitation is at 11am in 24-402 in ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  year anyway b) plenty of people get in from schools that don't even offer ... just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  –all MIT students must take at least 8 of these classes to graduate! side ... incredibly uncomfortable mix of feelings: horror at Hamilton and Angelica’s betrayal of Eliza, and incredulity at their massively inconsistent pretense

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  at us and goes "Um, are you two over 18?" My Brain: "Of course we are ... of private). The lady looked at us, looked at our badges, and said "Um ... . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... very healthy--it’s the end of the semester ok. At this point, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in ... how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer science classes in general; as a math major, I feel like a lot of concepts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  the Courseroad of all the classes I took at MIT, it's hard to pick out a ... improve at over the course of time. I had binders and notebooks filled with ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  deckbuilder, you'd draw cards from your deck at the beginning of your turn, have ... You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  all obstacles. It is the ability to move mountains one grain of sand at ... , Starbucks gave me some internet, and at least now I had some sense of ... 3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... and technology. We're offering amazing prizes - including a scholarship

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007