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  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... from the r/Jeopardy subreddit     Also, it is Because ... MIT senior Lilly Chin just won the College Jeopardy championships

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  dream of passing. There really is a strong work ethic here. For the most ... is the best way to go because: 1) First term is PASS/NO RECORD!!! 2 ... ). Wonderful? Out of this world? No, the question is... Can you SURVIVE??? I

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  ended up submitting a resume for a summer position. I got the job and ... , racing big wheels, and generally having one of the best summers ever. But ... Plushies for us, free of charge! This was some of the most exciting news we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi ... that this is MIT's fault--MIT is, of course, the greatest school that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  people talk about searching the world for a soulmate that is everything ... terribly wrong and i feel nervous about the future and mit is a minefield of ... to that cause or job or person for the rest of your life, and sometimes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  's world, I figured I'd share my experience here on the blog! For reference, AfroTech is an annual conference for students, companies, and ... everyone leaving for the airport at 6 AM. Honestly don't think there was

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  dressed out of the norm. Wearing just a flannel shirt is out of the norm ... make dinner for our vegetarian Co-op that night.  Shaws is about a ... make quesadillas, made the quesadillas, and then it was about time for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  hope for the best for every one of them. ... is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... tell. It is for this reason that I try to be as tolerant and lenient with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  fetal position. So for me, dreaming is just about the most awesome thing ... . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... , but no amount of planning is immune to the inevitable forces of nature ... in the next few hours, neither is that something my head can handle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  process. I think my favorite is the private jet/financial aid story from ... .Y. Before anyone could go running for the police, the new guide explained that ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  students we might like to speak with. The best way for MIT to achieve the ... " thing for us is the prosthetic kind. So tell me, what could we create in ... that's where the money is." Well, organizations love Facebook (and other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing ... To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... astronaut, Jeffrey Hoffman. MIT has also produced the most astronauts than any

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... dressed in shorts and aloha shirts, we were… rather ill-prepared for the ... sticks, retrieved one of the B2 fake lei, poked holes in the head for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response ... the best work required drawing on the full range of human experience and ... 's past Presidents is a formidable register of some of the most significant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  't have very expressive eyebrows; for the past half hour I've been mostly ... not to scream. It's not the drill - I have about as much tolerance for ... that plastic purple gun that is actually used for ear piercings. ME: Wow

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  tighter, as if enough pressure would coax the misery out, but, for all she ... on his German years as one of the best periods of his life. From a ... ; And every goodbye since, for both of my parents, has mirrored the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  famlines; this is the famline i'm referring to! it's a nice way for alum to ... for hot cocoa YAY! Izzy Z. '26 is also the beloved president of CSC and ... any Chinese cultural affiliations, which is also true for all other

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025