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• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  friend would randomly send me a puzzle to solve that would help me later on ... So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer ... @MIT, you could grab a bite to eat before the performance begins. After

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with 75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  out to dinner on Friday night as a reward for working hard all week. This week, we went to Buk Kyung II, a Korean restaurant in Allston. So ... Sorry for being MIA you guys! I've had a tough couple of weeks, but I

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What support is available for LBGTQ students?

  MIT strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for LBGTQ ... , welcoming communities on campus willing to answer questions for current MIT ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well.
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those people accepted a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep ... waitlist became a reality. We worked all day today as a subcommittee to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT ... of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r/IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  valero-o'connell. you bought it on a trip to harvard square where you ... choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... to remind you that things would be okay. there's a small niche of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... running (5-ish am to 2-ish am on weekends or midnight-ish on weeknights, except on Sundays, when the T runs 6-ish am to sometime shortly after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  as close as you'll get to a home-cooked meal. On a weekly basis, food ... Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... 's only one way to know. (Huge shoutout to the many friends who joined me on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  week, in preparation for a CPW event that my fraternity hosts every year, Battle of the Bands, I went to check out a potential band for the ... scraped off with that one. I soon arrived at Harper's Ferry to a packed room

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a ... As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  's basically an initiative to encourage people to make a positive difference in the world. Past grant recipients have used the money to fund research on ... send a larger group of kids to camp. There are a thousand project entries

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and ... , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a ... theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  agree on. To experience several bad patches week after week is a surefire ... .) You don't have to be on your game at all times, but it's a good idea to ... which were back-to-back), writing about 30 pages on subjects ranging from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  essays, be a shoulder to lean on, be passionate about something, be curious ... (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with ... to be able to attend and meet amazing people who shared such a strong desire to have a positive impact in the world.   Aldrich Hall, part

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... this on the Part 1. Where are you from -- a big city? a rural farming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  /or insomnia: take a walk outside on a sunny morning to help reset your circadian ... A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3 ... of interesting presenters speaking on a large range of topics. Here ... the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012