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• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  is a qualified lightly"]lightly[/annotation] annotated version of his email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me ... "]electrical engineer of the hardware variety.[/annotation]  In my era, MIT had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... you say it is, because I am a sane person."So yeah. A list it is. 1. I ... I visited MIT my junior year, I missed my plane and was really worried

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as tEp."]tΞp![/annotation] While work week in Greek life systems outside the MIT bubble might refer ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  , you may be wondering why this is the story of the 5 Wits. Well, there ... from MIT over the month. Eventually, their brains were tired, so the ... , Spike and Matt (the MIT alum who started the company!). Although they

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  "), touristy ("Have your parents take you to the North End"), or non-MIT ... worth doing, but...it's just not that special. Which is why I've decided ... they're all part of the MIT experience. I realize that many people will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few ... quite useful to carry a flashlight and multitool at MIT - it's a bit of a ... hectic in the summer at MIT anyway; you don't have to worry about classes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96-page tome emblazoned "MIT CPW" in bright tangerine and maroon block type ... discussed, possibly because of the challenge describing it poses. It is the

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  puzzlehunt? The MIT Mystery Hunt is a puzzlehunt, the biggest and grandest of ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... some puzzles, which will be marked. This paragraph is not a puzzle. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  . Accordingly, my Kryptonite is waking up super early (before 11am). I don’t even ... . My saving grace for the past few weeks has been MIT time. Every class ... : a 9am class begins at 9:05 and ends at 9:55). In theory, this is

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  ="so bc is my dorm. we have mit faculty who live in the dorm and basically ... "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... hoarder.  anyway— the point is mostly that i have a lot of random shit that

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast ... that I am at MIT, I have found that winter in Boston may be the same ... . Winter in Boston is more like short punctuated treks into the cold from my

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  tell you all about it. Bevi is a “smart” water “dispenser” company started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... ."]which happens at MIT more than I’m proud to admit[/annotation]), and I also put

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  ="aligncenter" width="432"] oh my god is one of its arms coming OUT of its pecs?? ok well

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  improves our ability to predict subsequent student success at MIT. When we ... evaluate their preparedness for MIT.[/annotation] Students who have not ... [annotation note='Here at MIT, President Reif recently announced that we are

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it's about depression. ac newman's lyrics hit deep, with lines like "so you crumbled, you doubled your dosage / you wanna go, said the inhibitor blocking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  the way, is 12.) But even at MIT, not everything can be measured. When ... easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches ... ! 2.007 was started by MIT Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... friends inviting them to join me at Harvard that day, turned my MIT hat inside out, and made my way up to conference. AT MIT, they say you have to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016