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• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... (generally the people who noticed it first and were sick of the puzzle they ... series of words or pictures. This is the kind of conversation you might

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  . Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of ... , do we sleep on the floor of our host's dorm, or are we actually getting ... is in the West Lounge on the second floor of the Student Center (which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  100 atm? Then you ought to meet us in the lobby of Building 66 at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 or 3:30 for a fun-filled tour of the Tester Lab, down in ... of the most pure, maternal soprano voices I've ever heard. She's a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop ... , but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do ... project, so here’s a list of the 10 most useful lessons. 1.  Lightning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the ... . The Internet became my playground, providing me with an endless array of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  - the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I ... representation of warfare.) I like fried chicken, hot dogs, the sun - and an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of Fame and saw the stars of some of my favorite actors….. He graduated

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... face, because of the fact that we spent ~12 hours studying during our ... badly on the third exam, in which case, our fate of passing or failing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... my absence was hard, but the true impact of leaving hit while I was ... Square (still during said FPOP) and feeling the vibration of the trains

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  . The Dean of the School of Humanities, Deborah Fitzgerald, already wrote ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... virology, and I can find others who share the same strange combination of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... exactly the same. On top of hearing variations (or combinations) of “slay ... agreement, or as an adjective, i.e. “so true of the professor for letting us

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on!" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... —we have [annotation note= "as indicated by the slew of MIT confessions about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your ... freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... view of the night sky for three and a half hours because THE SUN GOES ... everyday bit of fun in an airport should have been the line for bag check

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  ="National Society of Black Engineers - An organization that works to support the professional development of people who identify with the black community"] NSBE ... 1: So the whole trip started off on the Tuesday of that week with

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh ... '[/annotation]. Someone offers to bring me the ladder so I can get off rope, but I refuse to ... for the amount of activity I’ve done in the last four hours. By the time

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019