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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third ... course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which ... ' experiences with freshman fall lie on the scale of "it was a little rough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  find a company to outsource this to and seek fundraising from somewhere ... ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  to have brunch at Hillel, and afterwards I walked back to EC with a ... ! (Note: this is a long list; feel free to skim if your interest wanes.)   24.9000 is Introduction to Linguistics! To answer a question some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... who want to make a lot of money go into the financial sector, people who ... find out they don't like a field or said field is not faring so well

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  these pathetic notes to the whole world and why I am painting a rather ... even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you ... 's hard for me to believe, too.) It has actually been finding the balance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... weird to listen to an opera, think that it must be in a foreign language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  learn a little bit more about life at MIT. MIT's blogs have started to ... useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... . The goal is to try to show a bit of everything. To be fair, 12 students

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  to know them a little better. If you're nice to them, they might be willing to snag a cot for you to sleep on, which means you won't have to lug ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... was going to be a better approach, given these limitations. phylogenetic ... classification all the way down to the species, or I had to use a more general

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  managed to find my way back to Sidney-Pacific for the night. My host Tina ... really yummy. Saturday afternoon, I found myself rushing to an A Capella ... group of us prefrosh sat down on some couches and tried to have a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  black people can relate to each other and speak to each other - it's a culture. and it's a culture i, a canadian jew who went to majority white and ... . someone added me to a black students' chat at the start of freshman year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• 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 ... eventually found the secret word (display). To unpack Semantle a little bit ... of a word, and then everyone tries to figure it out by iteratively

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... the trunk's corners and pockets to find...nothing. Uh. Fortunately

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  ='It is hard to exaggerate the degree to which Paul — who was not a tall man ... .']recruited to be a coxswain of the crew team.[/annotation] I figured out pretty ... making complex topics easy to grasp; his skill as a teacher made this

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... , like the ability to tell someone their video on YouTube of a baby hamster ... only there were a way to show you the humble beginnings of the 'net

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  closed Raymond asked for a hamburger It was served to him on a sandwich ... Boston is supposed to be a place of good seafood. Do not go here for good ... basement for a party and you go to lean against the walls and the walls are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... appear prepared to have a job interview, but my advice would be to ASK that ... anything, or to dress in a particular way. My bet is the answer is "no" on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious ... bird. That’s generally a very lucky thing to be at any time except for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  this point I went to my teachers and counselors to find an unbiased ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus visits—the Eastern seaboard trip to hit the Ivies, the midwest trip to hit

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008