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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis. Looking back though, I remember being hesitant when deciding on whether or

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  “It'll be over before sunrise.” The first time I heard it, midnight ... Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... . *** Q: Tell me a little about yourself. A: I’m Vaishnavi, a junior in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this ... each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always ... Sinhalese, and I would start imitating them and we would all laugh.” But when

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry on back order (in my head, since it got DELETED), but I just wanted to let you guys know about a program that I participated in back in high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... -floor lobby -- or, I guess, there was a fancy portrait. Now there is a very different kind of portrait. I have a few pictures below; the best ones are by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  . Shuli blogged about REX the other day and you should go read that. But I ... erases the events from memory once they occur, I also wanted to upload a complete PDF, which is also embedded below. The REX guide (and i3 videos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Simmons (I just moved, again), I noticed something floating in the air ... ! Let's go let's go let's go)   edit: I recieved an anonymous email

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes ... child? I'll take any leads...

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  So I was looking through my camera tonight, and here's what I found: It's Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  12 hours and counting until CPW. Here are some places where I'll be ... Cappella Concert, 5:30pm, Saturday mitBEEF Beef-Off (I'm a Guest Judge!), 7 ... expected almost everywhere in the country tomorrow, I suspect there will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  what are some of the classes/teachers you've particularly enjoyed? I didn't do enough justice to this answer, originally. Some classes I also liked ... shops that I frequent have sorbet and frozen yogurt as well. Ask ME

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... combination of Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler) and (I Just) Died in ... solos... I got to sit behind the sound guy! ;) And, for the grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  previous years, I have conducted Central Meetings in Providence, St. Louis ... ), and Sacramento. Wow that's a lot of travel! This year, I'll be doing CMs ... California's Central Coast, so I'm pretty excited. As our Central Meetings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who did the right thing. I was incredibly impressed with your integrity ... . These actions were heroic and I am so proud of you guys. People have been

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  Today's tie: blue/gray/slate-colored. I worked with Amy and a student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch, I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  affected. We are working closely with them to offer every support we can. We ... countries and are not already in touch with us, please reach out. You can ... Office. We will do what we can to help you get back to campus. Noontime

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  the communities face and how we can better help them. Miramontes has a ... . There´s not much that we can do about the machine, but we are ... pieces can sell for more on the market) and creating a heat sealer to help

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  year's worth of supplies to an offshore oil rig. "You can land on the snow, you can land on the water," Pasternak says. "It's a new vision of what can be done in the air." ***FACT BOX AEROSCRAFT FACTS:** -Purpose

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006