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• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two ... and support that so many people provided in order to make this the ... puzzles and some negotiations over the size of the one that we would be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  the form. I know breaking up is hard to do, but not knowing is even ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  to MIT because of the "weird people" they believed to be at MIT. Not to ... least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... not to take the summer off) Enough sarcasm though, I've really enjoyed

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last until the coin is found, usually sometime Sunday. To give you a flavor of ... the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word, a six-letter word, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  modeling, and everything seems to be going pretty well--the grad students are ... will be placed in this little alcove so it's against the left wall, but ... few hours and went up to check it out. This is Brian: Over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend to all take the same core curriculum as freshmen. This not only ... limits of our knowledge every day - and that's why I'm so excited to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus ... pain and chaos.  This semester, we were going to be involved with the ... last semester to be “behind the scenes.” The show was going to be in one

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  There's not any real formula to the way I write blog entries, but I try to ... about the Future, capital F. (And the future's going to be great!) Early ... be a torturous process; the admissions officers just want to get to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  that I was not looking forward to, but one of the biggest aspects of ... hardest transitions for me were when I came to MIT, it would be the ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  trail and probably didn't expect the hack to be as successful as it was ... the situation and urging them to vote, but this effort did not bring ... will Alex go to school? -- the will, chutzpah, and bodacious craft of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  enough to be a wedding invitation, which felt ironic, considering the ... struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... talk about it on the blogs, but when I actually sit down to write it, I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  connect with my colleagues. To be able to understand why it is they thought ... tangible impact on my life. However, I have found this to be as far from the ... the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  am making is this: accepted or not, you all have the ability to perform ... all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  -drinking. Under the plans, alcohol will no longer be sold to under-21s in off-licences and supermarkets. There have been warnings that the measure will be ... ”, with pride. This is not to say that everyone in the US approves of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  walls IMO add a cool aesthetic to the place, but it's definitely not for ... in the room, but we could not get it to work after troubleshooting for ... with[annotation note="maybe the words 'to be left alive' should be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... of my presence is wafting through the air so you will know where to ... ; in the dead of night, the gold i had woven turned out to be dust

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  Medlink. Enter Medlink, Mike. Medlink Mike: What seems to be the problem ... yes, "no kissing." Bryan walks to La Verde's in the Student Center to ... sing to you. Rob: Oh okay. The Muses sing to Rob. Bryan and Rob enter

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  buildings seemed to be the embodiment of innovation, the students I saw ... can you look over the charles river and just not be happy" ... am not sure if you guys have the same feeling, but sometimes you just

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

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  main projects this trip will be to try and provide the community with a ... 4 years, not to mention the fact that it was unsafe in its functional ... with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... background to be really good, and I didn't have the body. A taller person could ...  still cannot touch my feet to my head backward. Why was this the gold standard

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020