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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  around 4 PM (perhaps the worst aspect of living at the far edge of the ... living vicariously through the stories of others. Today, my world is bigger. I live in a different apartment now (still in Cambridge) but with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Station Esplanade, caught the end of the Packers-Seahawks game, and went to ... time in LA playing the Mexican food game. Sunday, September 7th & ... which I was ready to house some food and watch the Patriots game, which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should ... heart of live blues music in the United States. You run into all sorts of ... about the history (Chess Records, anyone?) than actual live performances

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  , but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do not know. I haven’t played games for years"]build as much ... game character I had never heard of. “Oh my god, you actually made Harry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  end laptops and gaming PC's are now even using 16GB. IS ... you're going to be using your laptop for heavy gaming, then you don ... gaming, then you probably already know about video cards.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  I noticed a flash game. I started playing and realized that there were ... that ferret then hinged on me playing and beating that game. I jumped and ... morning we had beaten the flash game and successfully confirmed the identity

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  internet- on gaming forums, random livejournals by people halfway across the ... 100th anniversary Harvard v Yale Football Game (American football). But ... someone will donate these pictures to them. The MIT balloon at The Game did

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  , but the irony is most people live in the watery areas. Austin is lush ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously ... live music. There’s SO much water! Austin is a green city. You can go

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  's amazing post "Black Lives Matter" (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4 ... excerpt….). After getting to MIT and living here MIT slowly just became ... that fact. MIT was simply just a place I happened to live; it was no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  sprites and an undiagnosed dark force. Right now he lives in East Campus. He ... more than the planet it lives on. Joe is also an extremely talented ... . ‘18’s mind palace is his living room floor. He plays by his own rules

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  kept circling back to retro video games—pixelated cartoons and satisfying ... that I wanted this to be a playable, hand-held game: I was going for a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  zone. This semester I'm taking: English 189VG - Video Game ... . We play about one video game a week and talk about it really intensely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  know, it was night, and I was coming from a, you know, a game. So, you ... the game, you know. I mean, it's sort of, you know, the thing? And then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not ... , meaning “wine”, and alho, meaning “garlic”. The video game “The Binding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  summer -- painting, drawing, gaming. Anything to keep the little string ... and it became a game of "So what do you love the least?", like asking to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  out with friends. Or I’m playing board games with people, or hanging out ... rolled in: I joined a LARP, watched a play, played some board games. Sunday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  CourseRoad Game and losing. When I considered switching to Course 17 (Political Science) in order to focus on public policy, the game was won

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  a game of time management.  For example, I was a perfectionist about ... much time gaming or Facebooking or Tumblring (I'll have to admit that I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  meeting of the MIT Engineers baseball team following their final game of the ... reached the championship game of the NCAA Division III New England Women

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009