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• Blog / Academics & Research

  don’t build the torment nexus and other such cliche advice for frosh

  

  in 2022, and now there are class of 30’s. By the time they graduate I ... "] american bullfrogs are the largest species of frog in north america and will ... the same time, the rest of us who’ve already experienced MIT for at

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  down my French Word of the Day and then Korean Word of the Day, and then ... , why CAN'T I be on the other side of the world during IAP? Why MUST I do something completely career-related (the career part of which I'm not totally

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... midafternoon lunch rush. "wassgood?" A familiar question snapped me out of the monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major ... impeded the ambulatory progress of David Karger, resident god of algorithms ... My friend Stephan’13 exploded into Internet fame over the holidays

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  sophomore takes during their IAP since it leads into 2.007, one of the most ... figured I should let you know how things went. Let's talk about some of the ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is ... and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  this is the least awkward of the 3 thumbnail options YouTube gave me. It ... To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  FPOP, and through Rush, I would meet a good number of the incoming class ... ![/caption]     An Evening with Champions The second week of school, I ... . Organized by Harvard undergraduates, this was the 48th rendition of the show

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket ... nice to have concrete answers to the phenomena of my life. It got to the ... book superhero, I’d boiled down the significant events of my childhood

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  up! Of all the food I’ve been eating, 78% has been free. Of all the t ... of my important due dates for projects next week (the second full week ... and bounds. Hopefully by the end of these four year I will have found a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned ... , had the goal of playing all the board games on floorpi before he ... liked it a lot, because the day after, he dm'd me this message: of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of the parts that I answered- including the ones I sort of blundered my way

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ?" I kind of just stared out the window without saying anything. I felt ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high school. No one actively caught me or anything of the sorts, I had just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the ... degradation of the culinary environment around me, I turned to various prominent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... succeeding, since the positive impact of your successes will eventually far ... of your childhood before you have to buy your own groceries (the rest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in ... day here over a year ago I've heard some of the most entertaining bits

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... corner of the Porter Exchange building. It's very unassuming at first ... , it's more popular in the east parallel of EC? Interesting... Silk Road

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... member of the other team, who had come running over to make the block. Foot ... of the game?” Four weeks later, I arrived at my new home - MIT campus

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  the current state of water quality in Haiti. And somehow, it all came ... for hours under the collapsed remains of a building until someone came with an ice pick and dug him out of the destruction. We listened to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010