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• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... scared right now. Be excited. Orientation is one of the craziest weeks you ... Mattress Dominoes? This video will give you the gist of it. They claim it's a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... , which I found basically unwatchable despite the presence of Xena and the ... thanks to the combined efforts of Course X, Rob and Amber, Family Edition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked ... images of injuries requiring the use of these resources often danced in ... out of the bay. Too bad it didn't move. It whimpered feebly and then

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met ... Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the ... -long "recitation," where he clarifies and expands upon some of the concepts we were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the ... cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other ... . Bought some of my course books for next semester from the Coop. (Yes, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... chicken wire. its discovery in 2010 won the nobel prize because of its ... ."]graphene[/annotation] and motors and stuff, which i think may be one of the coolest jobs ive

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... be wondering how the night of the ring delivery unfolded. It went

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I ... a talk from Steve Huffman, one of the founders of Reddit, and from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... , but I'm sure at least a few of you will have the same difficult choice

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... of sugar. I was reminded of the days when Halloween meant spooky ... of pieces. One of the TA’s was even dressed as R.B. Woodward, MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set ... DETERMINED to be hardk0re that he sings a song about it, to the chagrin of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  . Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather the numbers of all these classes. So you end up with this: Day 1: 6 ... flavor text. The flavor text is stressing different components of time

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  humanities... The statements spanned all spectrums of human life, from income ... reflected as true with a significant number of people. The sense that MIT was a microcosm of the world was enormous, and even in this diverse

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the ... sleep by 2 am (even if most of the students were still up doing an 18.03 p ... booth. Speaking of the visual arts center, we passed by the building with

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  face to the interwebs. I have replaced it with that of the guitarist ... , or multiple of 90-120 minute nap -- whatever leaves you feeling the ... A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of ... of main campus where I spend my days. This geographic density, the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019