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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  tales of back to back exams or days filled with essays, psets, and lab work. They make no efforts to spare the gory details. In comparison, my ... , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range ... in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this ... . During the dinner, Petey also mentioned (in response to my initial distaste ... wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... wanting to take a class at Harvard recently in order to experience a ... right. This is in direct contrast to most Easterners (especially those

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... [/annotation]. One, to go along with Angela in Guam and Emily in New Jersey, Karthik ... of the four students had either never been to campus or had visited

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  than your grades.  It happens to everyone sooner or later, if The Tech ... to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts ... MIT different from other universities? How might you know whether or not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... fictional. Any resemblance or likeness to actual personified objects is purely ... direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... goal is to put your satellite in three different columns of air and try ... first few times kid: creepers are the easiest monsters to kill in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  't think I will surprise or upset anyone to say that this past year has been ... ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017 undergraduates, whom we admitted, in the main, four years ago. In the intervening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got ... .) It's important to keep in mind the loud harmony of Tim's pipe as ... lurking behind a pillar. Here's Greg again -- he sauntered in to enjoy the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I ... everybody in the room and called them by their first names or nicknames ... times, all the rooms for the teams, permission to put a device in lobby 7

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  to explain herself [in the form of a 200 character apology tweet ... At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  stretcher grace. A special thanks to Vidya '12, who came in when she wasn ... -related education :) Also - a thanks to all of you EA Admits who participated in the ... someone else's stupidity or unforeseeable circumstances; unfortunately

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that ... of a place or event I've been to. I think it's nice how they come with ... floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4 ... things you'd find in your typical day to day household. Over the summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job ... homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... […][/annotation] To: frens <3   Oh, take this veil from off my eyes My

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024