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  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start ... they are frosh.  This is called the conservation of frosh.  Since they ... really cool things going on, and some already do!  While there is building

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  't seen much snow until coming to MIT. Nemo is by far the most amount of ... magical power of mailing lists (how everything gets done at MIT) a ... to work this afternoon, the river is still frozen over and there are

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see ... residents are not enrolled in the MIT Dining Meal Plan, but we are blessed ... learn the intricacies of this way of cooking. Stirfrying is such a simple

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  behind Simmons is to walk them through Cambridge - an event that everyone I know (see above) is very excited about. I received maybe eight or ten ... it rhymes), because while MIT does have a communal love of gargantuan

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One option is to order in every night (I actually tried this) Monday: Papa

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... 's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  is a really hard luxury to take advantage of at MIT, but these talks ... in Computing -- which is basically an 8,000-attendee ... (and fellow MIT alum) Megan Smith.   But here's the thing.  I

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  appreciation for the chocolate chip cookie (which we both think is TOTALLY ... I honestly do not believe that there is a baked good out there more ... MIT campus. We sat on a bench outside, munched on cookies, and discussed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her ... , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post, and this is that! I loved reading it, and I know you will too <3

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  -shirts before going out for Korean food with friends. Immediately, the rush of MIT ... morning nor night), or how to sense when my social battery is gasping and ... this blog is a collection of those observations: some things I learned

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  turned towards, well, fish. One thing you'll notice if/when you attend MIT is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They're kind of like the MIT equivalent of the Facebook group. Everybody's on a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the ... spaces at MIT, and that those spaces hold room for me to be and to grow. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  with garba at Milan, an event organized by MIT SAAS (South Asian American ... - and the safety net that is Pass/No Record :( Part IV: Winter Break ... and repping MIT with my hoodie: On the Kali River Rapids, in Disney

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  about MIT: Other than Matt McGann's blog? [seriously, this is what Ben ... favorite things about MIT is hacking, but it's been quite some time since we ... Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  capabilities, so I felt the need to subscribe to a stereotype. But here at MIT, everyone is a nErD!!1!!1! Being smart was no longer a distinguishing identity ... mean, the solution is to not care about what others think, especially

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... materialize behind him, and then the commander turns around and realizes he is ... job is to pop as many of them as possible. you pop bloons by placing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  person with a job--which is normal, just not necessarily at MIT. I need to ... This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen. What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  me maintain my creative spirit at MIT. Figuring out what to wear is a ... writing class, and a thesis prep class. “I understand the ‘buffet’ is ... being a student whose sole responsibility is to learn. To find answers to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand ... this long at MIT without getting some form of disease. I'm sure part of ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... about, going back decades. My friend Sarah Z. '24 is on RingComm, a ... we were, in fact, MIT students (and also probably to make sure our

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022