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• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came ... wandered into a tiny park. Its swings, benches, and lounge chairs stood ... steps away. I felt a surge of excitement then. It remained with me weeks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  (which I didn't do anyway, so it happened). “Whatever for?” you inquire. “Read the next sentence,” I respond. Thanks to FASAP (which gives its thanks to MIT funding, which gives its thanks to my tuition), I and my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  planning to draft an entry on November 7, but I had to call it off because I ... . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... class during the term, it generally gives you 2 points and lasts for one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  surgeon. 9:28am: A parent's question: "How important is it to choose a major ... did it! Her colleagues were incredulous. "'How did you do this? We ... freshman year to make it easier to make the choice of major. It is diffucult

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  't take it for a million dollars. You will always hear people say how much ... I know that the instant I saved this entry as a draft and it showed up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  It's work week at [annotation note="pronounced 'Xi' like the Greek ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... self governance and full ownership over their living space, it's no

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  ."]IAP[/annotation] period and decided he wanted to make an automated nerf turret. Here is how ... on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so ... inspiration since it would be easy to mount on the gun since the gun required a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... serious question, and it deserves a longer response. The reality is that ... students taking their own lives at MIT and places like it, the causes -- to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in ... trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter ... without lanes, fill it to capacity with rickshaws (India’s take on

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  strategize about. It was hard to think about how the players might estimate the ... . This might be a little unclear, but don't worry – I explain it better ... insight into each game and figure out how much luck played into my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another ... to make me try drawing with MS Paint, and it was the second to worst

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  mean, it's something I need to do. But who I am is more than that. How do ... It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements ... classes I want to be on my transcript when I apply to college. Even if it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS ... , making this blog post about how, indeed, our double is one of two on the ... ?). Though it probably sounds like we are or we should be, we are actually not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  them. I think it’s interesting to look back on all those little, unimportant things, and see how they were sometimes tied to big, important ... Someone took down our hack before it saw the light of day, sadly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  my Algebra 2 teacher’s recommendation. It was simply a better school ... things you do and how you’ve developed yourself in your mental, emotional ... disorder. So this step may not be for everyone, but it definitely caused

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  it quits. Accompanied by two friends, I made my way back to Mc ... prodigies, but what really struck me was how everyone seemed so genuinely nice ... question about it. When it's 3 am and I still haven't finished my lab report

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  leaving for another planet. But that's how it is. This is not the Earth ... magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM. The Land of MIT. And its inhabitants, the Students, look like this

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  hated it, because all I wanted to do at that moment was go back to sleep ... . But this morning it was different. When the alarm went off I dutifully ... it. I've really had a good time living in the house this year. I have

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  . It wasn't until I joined LTI, though, that I realized how much more ... overcome their obstacles and accomplish their dreams. Humbled, I made it my mission to return the favor but knew that I could not do it alone. I wished

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008