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• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... a cup of tea on his way to fight an invisible space bear the printer ... in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  ran to a cluster and surfed around on the internet before finding a very ... Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  ’t come to MIT on an equal playing field. My friends came in with a massive ... A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... else contained in so many past and future blogs*. I don’t want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  get a chance to take part in next year's Hunt. I'm hopeful that the ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  being in this major? It would really be a shame to major in something that ... I want to do, which has left me swaying quite a bit between staying in ... becomes hard to even enjoy it as much, and it makes the experience sour in a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  debate. He could relate; he used to be UAVP himself! In fact, he was Matt ... - because they have stories, and they have useful advice, and a sense of ... are good photographs. I was going to leave the party and go out with a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  that spoke directly to a state of being–in stasis, or peril, or ... I only stayed outside for a few seconds to take them in–enough for the ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... , but here was a deal-breaker: I went to the orientation meeting, only to ... know if a better time works.") to no avail. Eventually, I left, and one

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  going to graduate with a 5.0 in a double major and double minor with a ... in a forest. I learned to shape glass. My remaining time at MIT wasn ... opportunities to push my comfort zone and do some hard work in a previously

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  that MIT was a place they'd like to be. Some students keep in touch with ... . They are also teachers of a type when they talk to each of you during ... something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  emails. For all of you trying to get your Regular Action application in by ... Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later). Will using a fee waiver affect my application? We are

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  you trying to get your Regular Action application in by the January 1 ... Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later). Will using a fee waiver affect my application? We are

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  other eager freshmen, still believed 24 hours in a day was surely enough ... comes down to a really, really tough question: “Chinese food, Thai, or ... lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... then she walked with me to 6-120, where a Physics class was in progress. I went in and pretended to be a student, which was easy given the 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While ... noting on a blog read by students aspiring to study at a school fascinated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  , and the path that Chavo had to walk in his life as a wrestler. I went ... known to be a “cheater” in the ring, and would try to get Chavo to fight ... formed in 2014 by a group of friends [pictured above] who created a band to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... ... lamb, shrimp, all raw... you cook it yourself on a skewer in a marinade

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon ... with feet in the snow. Ahh, nothing more fun than a real Boston nor'easter to liven up a winter weekend. Questions: 1. Jay asked, "Hey Mollie

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  Boston, and as a result I didn’t have a ton of room in my living space to ... leftover from the 2024 fort sitting in my house’s basement, so I used them to ... to do in Python instead. The primary use of this script was to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond ... one of the chosen 5? Does anyone know where I can get a used Viper ... Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007