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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  ’t think such a word exists. I’d felt that MIT was a place for me. The ... walking around campus had done what so many high school students strived for ... Heaven on Earth.   Now let me be completely honest with you guys for

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

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  (7:17 AM) Sorry for the delay in updating but the rest of the day has just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don ... the puzzle from &#%% and for your reading enjoyment, I'll post it here

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  decade ago. And when I played back then, it was an unorganized free-for ... prison is fairly far away from MIT, but UNH had arranged for us to travel ... , I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. The weather conditions were far

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  freshman spring semester I signed up for both a 6.01 and 6.042 tutors and it ... doubled up again and signed up for tutors in both 6.005 and 6.046. Sadly ... 't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  ="alignnone" width="300"] we holed up in the media lab for the night, which doesn ... before. I’d planned for Energy Hack to take up all of Saturday, so I ... survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  ="1000"] laser cutting right angle brackets for holding things up ... are cleaning up--gingorbread stata however will be out for a whole week ... holding up pretty well, and we've also got two pieces of foam acting as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  was that they would get "Brained on a rock" (This is not changed for Up ... Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of ... doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up an ... environment brimming with opportunity, I ended up trying more than just ... science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  . You know, Ben Jones, there's no category for "FREE FOOD!" in this vast ... Course X end up finding careers through monstertrak or one of the myriad interviews and information sessions set up on campus. But undergrads don't have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  might say. For a little bit, there are interesting thoughts that crop up ... arm’s breadth away is the perfect amount of distance for the human ... experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  i set up alarms too early than too late. an alarm that's too early ... wake up. the analogy is that when there's something i'm alarmed about ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Joan - ALL THE MUGS! IT IS SO EXCITING! We signed up for the class right ... for IAP: Mighty Mugs Cocktails 101 FormLabs Bad Ideas Getting ... - Claire L. '17 - when she brought up that there were ceramics classes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... strong on my quest to get the Pirate's License. While I came for the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  . Keeping up with the standard I had set by eating for the Internet, they ... was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... for a long, long while; Melis '08 wrote about it a few years ago, when

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in ... last two years, we are handling the job of assigning rooms for team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  , just in case anyone gave me a hard time about not dressing up. Ready for ... Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you ... graduate students? Have you or any of your friends started researching for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... way this feeling has. This sense of exhaustion slowly seeped its way up ... Undergraduate Association rallied hard for faculty to change their semester plans

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  and preparing your oral and sometimes even finishing up analysis for the ... my slides from Alpha Decay, which I ended up choosing for my public ... drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... 'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the ... filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008