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  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... : radio astrophysics, a measurement of the 21cm hydrogen line*. 3. Starting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  none of the current bloggers live in ILGs, I'm appreciative of Keri's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... living groups - they've been mentioned on the blogs before, but as none of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... turning 21 a week before graduation, and she is one of the most competent ... idea that I was closer to MIT kept me going (that, and the idea of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  ’t take into account the full range of aid that we offer, since they are ... income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don ... much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... of the upper-level classes/labs are only available in the fall or spring semester"]one of the less flexible majors,[/annotation]which makes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato ... here and sean goes to harvard. the three of us talked about credit, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... present all of our really cool research to the big industry sponsors funding

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought I’d fix that now, with a review of all the classes I took freshman

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  of tea through the whole day. it was a ridiculous amount of tea. go ... projects i had due end-of-semester. but of the four (yes, four, it ... at least had to put some amount of effort into the project. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being ... questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... also knew a lot of people from college who took the path you described

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the ... ! I want one :)[/caption] The dataset consisted of a few thousand

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on ... the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be freshmen.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... into the void of the interwebs…also shamelessly quoting ourselves in same post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... mathematical maturity, he often gives off the dignified vibes of a tweedy ... 't graded; everything depends on the final (the Tripos) at the end of the year

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  him reevaluate his life reminded me of the times when i, too, had a ... an engineer or scientist like so many of my peers. i feel the years ... trunk, one inside the next - as cisneros describes it - than a stack of

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... ="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this ... half marathon by the end of the summer.  But that didn’t end up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025