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• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  car... I owe a super-big thank you to every one of my friends who ... whole thing very patiently, and to my friend Maddie '22 who actually came ... , my friends -- i.e., they were actually good. After lunch (...or, like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  hackers in one gymnasium. Incredible. I ran into so many of my friends who ... quit my second. By 7 am, I had formed a new team with an old friend ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  than I like my friend but less than I like the laundry server. Just ... walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  4AM and cry for no specific reason, traitor tears leaking through my ... myself, by myself, and with myself: going for a walk, decluttering my closet, playing a video game in my room. All the hangouts and trips and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  kill two birds with one stone. Anonymous asked: "A lot of my friends got ... talking with my readers or even making friends with them, though in my ... Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  Nearly fourteen years after graduating, I still wear my Brass Rat every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  my friends read those word vomits. That doesn't necessarily make me ... above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  week has been particularly rough on several of my friends here at MIT ... First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... definition. My high school rank. My highest test grade at MIT. My lowest test

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Ten Rings with my friends in a Cambridge theater [*] dragged my ... with the incredible support of my mentors, friends, and family, I was ... -fixated on things, and Marvel was an extensive enough franchise that my little

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering ... ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20 ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  explain the configuration. Bear with me, but my Paint skills are not superb ... , we yelled back, and he conferred with his friends for a translation. It ... friends. But the fun was soon to change from the expected dance party. Our

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... only friend people at the college you attended. It was a very different ... - like friending people at other schools, photos, videos, etc - have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  represented their home countries (as my Singaporean friend had ... professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  the time we were finishing up writing the book, my friend and editor ... rocket scientist. "She really is, too," friends of mine would helpfully add ... ?" They imagined a lab in my basement that involved arcing electricity and

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  friend begins to talk about the party that you were not supposed to go to ... entry has been on my mind since this time last year. My college roommate ... man once said, "I feel your pain." Or as my grandfather was fond of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  ,[/annotation] a party size bag of [annotation note="that my friends and I somehow ... ’m in my room. I typically end up in Next or Simmons to pset with friends ... /or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  wore on my second-ever date, back when I was fourteen.  A friend I ... warm and friendly, and there is a lot of free food. My luggage hasn ... , Arizona, my room with blue walls and faded art from past comic-cons. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  - it took me and my friend an entire two-hour build session. The next ... of my best friends on the Robotics team were from "that school", and ... petty answer was that they didn't care as much as I did. My friend Sophia

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a ... motivated my desire to be productive faded within a matter of days. i thought

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  my friends are genuinely the sole reason for my sanity in a time where ... me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024