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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... hours in the forges of MIT creating metal alloys and casting them.  During ... in the future.  I am now considering doing a concentration in either

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... decent part in Hack Punt Tool because it was about MIT students and you are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  active in the policy space through several ongoing projects, programs, and ... " today. And, in a landscape strewn with shoddy writing, his articles are ... did Grimmelmann participate in this year's Mystery Hunt; as the 2011

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  incoming freshman will not have this semester to see what being in an MIT ... information…. (from the MIT Panhel website) Over 400 women are in sororities at ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  Things are actually pretty calm here in New England, even with the ... excited, sure, but the third win in four years for the Pats is nothing ... in the meantime feel free to use this post's comments section to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and culturally rich places in the world. My weekdays were essentially the same. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  graduate students in STEM and STEM-adjacent fields. This was a lot of writing for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... ] = Curry pizza Mixing foods from the same station can result in surprising

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  "] barcelona, with casa battló in the background[/caption]   If there ... turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one ... anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  be likable in her posts. She’s not quite as funny as I am. I’ve still ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first time in my life (it was a modular synth techno set, if you were curious

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one video generated from the prompt “Soccer players in purple celebrate as the ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  people at mit"? i think it's mostly undergrads, people in related friend ... would answer differently in theory because what i like is my personal ... much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023