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  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays ... , I overlook it. There are many days where I spend my minutes like poker

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find out that I'm the MIT intern they ask me fun questions like "do you play poker?" and "did MIT students really create a working hoverboard?" Other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  're currently designing for the play Fetes de la Nuit as though it would be ... for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to ... course) for the blogs after the semester's over, so I'll write more about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  “So, you gonna play?” I said, raising an eyebrow expectantly at ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of ... in the hopes of securing a game buddy. “Nah,” he said, shaking his

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... for the Game Lab, which is so cool to me. Dream job TBH. Related to ... dinners at restaurants around the area. Cruft come and write games for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... for group psetting, it's okay to want to work alone. Maybe you work

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  online, and I assure any aspiring scholars of MITese that you will find ... name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... strangers; stay in touch either in person (come visit us!) or online (please ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  2020 or 2021. In the process of doing research for this post, I found ... weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and ... those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of their tendencies for child-play have no place in common living ... his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... Reckoning The why game Teach anything, learn anything It's probably a good ... . Splash, for example, happens for one weekend every November, and it's aimed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... were optional through an online lecture experiment so that was excusable

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2.004 exam that i am so, so not prepared for that i really shouldn’t be writing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  available online! Blogger Elizabeth C. '13 got us excited for it here and Ceri ... exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a ... , Downtown Boston splits into diverse districts, one for each type of adventure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... only printed and not uploaded anywhere online because the file size was initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands ... they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks ... Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014