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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab ... those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... one of the East Campus events, I learned how to use an electric drill ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  groups, I have been in Seattle, at home, while the rest of my family has ... Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a ... its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I ... Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  . Class of 2014. Hometown: it's complicated. I was born in Singapore, and ... intelligence in such a vast array of ways. I was very attached to The Smart Kid ... group of people most similar to me. If I did, I wouldn't have ended up in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... doors in the middle of trees or something (I don't actually remember, so

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  , filling in every inch of nothingness. I had become pain incarnate. Full of ... like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I ... filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  runs a little deeper than in many of the other kids that I have interviewed for MIT, and I wish them the best of luck and hope that they stay in ... head off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  have never wept in front of a crowd before, but yesterday I did get ... , thank you. In the middle of each meeting, I introduce the local ... Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  -death experiences in the span of 4 days, but I did. Tuesday night, I was all ready to ... , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of ... , so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... cash, an iPhone, a set of keys tagged with the apartment address, and a ... have gone smoothly and wonderfully. I got my first taste of working on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... first snow day I have had in years. The view from my window Back home ... stick around more (case in point: I had never seen snow turn black), but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  17.S914 Conversations in You Can’t Have on Campus. It’s 2 hours of ... to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... example, in the case of the required Course 16 Unified Engineering series

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... 's gotten into me :( Second: this weekend is going to be EXCITING! I know of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  name. And I found the fridge: it is in fact disguised as a set of drawers ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When I ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014