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• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... -surprised by how easy it was to give Up-Goer Five names to these groups of hard ... -problem-making-person did not plan for, or if no checking-person is able to get the right

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  Lavery, posted to YouTube by Team 801: To read more about the game, you ... founded by inventor Dean Kamen and MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... inspired by Abby’s last post and am going to conclude this blog with a photo

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  to ask. Remember that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up ... might add: please allow your interviewer some time to get back to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the ... ="84400" /] Out of a mild fear of getting lost or left behind, I attached myself to an old lady who was also getting up to stretch her legs; we had a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  'm abrasive. Or harsh. Or difficult to get along with. And sometimes I wish I ... 'll admit I was a bit taken aback by his reply. While I was gathering up the courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... that we'd have to move out by November 25, two Wednesdays from now. This ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  tunnel near the esplanade." Nice. Clearly a plot by security trying to get ... guarded by police, redirecting anybody without a "pass" to a dirt trail. I ... equipped to hear. I looked at my watch. I was going to have to stand by this

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who ... ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to ... Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  group projects to encourage students to get their hands dirty and try ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie & ... to scan it in yourself, though. Submit your entry either by leaving a link to it in the comments, or by emailing me your file. My email address

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  my freshman year. The next morning, I walked to MIT Medical to get ... this first week. I haven’t left my room except to get my second COVID ... food is still mostly up to par"]get dinner.[/annotation]Some things have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  like salads as they hand out coupons to passersby. (If I ever get the ... intense, it refused to be subdued by the iced tea I picked up - although ... 'm not knocking Nutella by any means - I'm going to try to find their

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  a student was unable to complete a course by the end of the semester ... opportunity to turn in late work by an assigned date. Upon completion of the ... 's most amazing ways to get involved with international development. Last

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... ; exercise I took Yoga last year so I could get closer to knocking out the PE

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I ... you get used to how awesome Firefox is, you can never go back to IE ... 'd never tried Opera before, but I was inspired to download it by all your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  like trying to get a stray cat to come closer. sometimes your efforts and ... questions, and answering the questions i did get to the best of my ability. i ... to get a series of them yesterday. i listened to them on my walk to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025