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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  . I know, it's a bold move for an inexperienced blogger like me, but ... can't wait until after the license plate game. You know who Bruce ... show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  truths and a lie.  Thanks for playing.   Sincerely, Erick ... If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to ... perfect. Go ahead, take your pick and then read below for the answers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... Family UROP fund for undergraduate sustainability research, I might even ... open him. Sadly, there was no room for him in my luggage. 5. Cooking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  this weekend was a hectic one for my living group. [annotation note ... for our current members and alumni. the chaos started on Thursday, where I met up with some alumni at [annotation note="the pub that for some

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in ... possible now that the human genome is sequenced. The challenge for biology ... shell out millions for a kid's science-fiction fantasy wasn't easy. After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... her a few facts about Cornell, and then I'd be money. I was sure that ... ethnicity openly and honestly. Don't just play up the school's strengths, but

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  Note: this post has been updated from the 2016 CPW mini-guide for the Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next ... !!! For the past week, our inboxes have been filled with CPW reminders and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  pm and bedtime: 1. Baking a cake for my friend Sam's birthday 2. Starting and finishing a pre-lab for my first graded Junior Lab project ... " atomic hydrogen out in space, astronomers look for its signature: radiation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask for, I requested beans and chicken. I made eggs with no oil and then ... Kerry Way uses these routes, winding for miles through private pasture

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was ... , everything I learned here was new except for vectors. I dominated the first 3 ... opportunity for learning. This does not apply to everybody, of course, I'm just

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the Battlecode real-time strategy game. This is a one-month hardcore coding skills contest for both beginner and advanced coders. It's a programming project
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences for the academic standards i’m comfortable with? could i, perhaps ... "]FPOP[/annotation] counselors (a super inspiring upperclassman!), so i reached out asking for his ... point, i’d slip and scroll through Facebook for three hours straight, or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  to have the money I needed for a late February delivery so I had to ... Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... market for $250k.  Not a bad amount of appreciation for 2 years of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail, Stuntcopter. I think for a time there I thought my dad must play fun games for a ... soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  crashing as soon as I turned it on. After playing with it for awhile, I ... be playing again- to be out there on the field in a game situation. It ... happened and cleared everything up for me, but it made yesterday a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  Housemaster) "As you know, young children play these imaginative formative games when they are growing up, like playing house and things like that ... Burchards for awhile, but I always thought, "well, I'll just write about it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  lungs lately. Circumstances are ripe for a brash inbox reorganization- as ... that MIT is about 50% Asian. 11:30: I met Mace (short for MeiHsin), the ... Ikea in 2020. And the lights in the elevator were red-tinted. Says the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... in songs and games. Following this training period, these adults go ... that first give kids a chance to play and then encourages them to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  (7:17 AM) Sorry for the delay in updating but the rest of the day has ... the puzzle from &#%% and for your reading enjoyment, I'll post it here ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  and every moment. We need numbers for the time. We need it for money. We ... different “names” in our respective languages for our numbers…all around the ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011