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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  that I literally could not have physically fit into my schedule. Game dev - I really wanted to join [annotation note="game design and development club"]GDDC[/annotation], but after I got a UROP in game design, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the ... , crosswording, board-gaming, coding, algorithm-writing, Googling ... following year. This year's theme was an Interstellar Board Game Convention

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Teehee

  

  Chris, my new Junior Lab (and cheerleading stunting) partner, w/ a little girl we met while cheering at a basketball game. Photo courtesy of Rita and her cell phone.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• 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 living, because that's what the computer was clearly for. When I found out

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

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  black leather (see above). The vampires, who live on quaint country manors ... 'll call them) who live in the sewers and speak with American accents ... our Starbucks are stupid and pretentious. Luckily, they had a party game

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  I've been living on campus, working on finishing my MEng thesis this ... ; the satisfaction of executing that reduction live; the enjoyment of ... have a place to live when you move; the bittersweetness of leaving town

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  which we were originally okay with because it was just like dorm living to ... that I am, was honestly freaking out about our living situation and desperately wanted to move. I had spent some time researching apartments to live

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There’s always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the clings and clangs…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  lived in for the duration of the program"]Almaty[/annotation], but Shoqan ... when they still lived nomadic lives"]yurt[/annotation]. [carousel image1 ... everything, and some days I was simply “off my game.” Each class of students

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  - faced with decisions like where to live and to work. I didn’t have values ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  playing video games or reading books. i go out with friends and have fun ... playing games. which kinda leaves this somewhat empty, numb feeling. it ... fancied myself as wanting to live intensely, of being romantic and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and ... . Basically some Swedish guy named Notch got bored at his job as a game dev and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b ... questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  into video games, politics, or most recently, buses. (It sometimes strays ... , everyone wants to play games together, whether it's Skribblio or Quiplash or ... hall rush, Floor Pi ran virtual tea time and game night. For the Puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  high school, so I decided to pursue something within video games. I signed up for the EECS-job-mailing-list as well as the Game Lab mailing list in search for any video game based UROPs. This IAP, I'll begin

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  accompanied by summertime music   Between my summers, I’ve lived such different lives: sad girl sulk in Boston, wanderlusty adventures in Europe ... , I'll live vicariously through the party-attendees and I've luckily

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  considerably. I watched some shows, played a new game (Civ 6), and chilled a bit ... interactions with covid felt rather unsafe living at home, but it inevitably took ... lunch with my friends and playing simple games like cards. I also dreamed

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would ... traditionally has more events than any other living group, despite being the ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  opportunity to attend the Fanmeile. We watched the game with 350,000 others ... immediately after the game ended, but as we rushed through the crowd and raced ... , the living quarters, the infirmary, the mortuary, the site of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  game today (nice!). Some of MIT's living groups, including Monica's, are ... . Be a live DJ on WMBR 88.1. Sign up at their booth at the Activities ... Fenway Park Today was the first home game for the Boston Red Sox, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007