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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... conundrum. Except one of his ideas to get rid of the snow was flamethrowers ... wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... 't it? And the wound is kind of gross too. Needless to say, a split chin ... boogaloo) has adopted a method of teaching with twitter he calls "tweaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  Those Kids, recognizing the output of a recursive method under a time ... system. Nodes? Just a funny word to me.)(Haha. Nodes.) Enough of the ... said our (thoroughly non-tearful) goodbyes to the days of merely skimming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in ... the world. The goal when we started was to get to 25% of the world

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... pumpkin patch, breathing in the smell of falling leaves and listening to the ... . Part of the experience is making new friends and finding a way to call

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  tower where I was was a target. I'm old enough to remember the feeling of ... of Massachusetts it occured to me. While we're all focusing on Math and ... So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff ... to be more and more people on campus but not the type of people you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... to do laundry. I would spend an entire day doing 4-5 loads of laundry

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  American Heritage Dictionary and is included as a unit of measure in Google ... distinguishes itself not only for its seriousness of purpose but also for its unique sense of humor, as expressed in the arena of hacking. Hacks at the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  adventures! Part 1 - Acquire the Ingredients There’s a bunch of benefits to going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food ... and I woke up at the crack of dawn to catch the [annotation note

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry ... okay for portions of my thesis to be under a  Creative Commons - Non

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  committee. Last party, on the last day of classes. Last time linking arms to ... ,[annotation note="I will not comment on our method of getting in"]we had no problems ... incredible covers of great dance music, and although we'd only planned to stay

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery ... into the depressing habit of staying up unnaturally late to take

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... person speaking Dutch backwards. In the category of Peace -- The Air Force ... . While I missed the ceremonies, I did make a point of going to the informal

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a ... it, it involves creating combinations of falling, popping blocks to ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  forced to let go of any part of me that thinks I’m better than other people ... ’t have to). My experiences with him were my best academic experiences of ... ’t figure it out. One of my biggest barriers towards success was that going to

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a ... just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the ... of random snacks. Make the walk across the river to Shake Shack and get

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025