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• 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 / 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
• 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 / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... immediately thank the gods for finals week. My GRT, bless his soul, cooked up an ... end up waiting for twenty minutes to see the doctor- I don’t mind. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their ... any additional students for the Class of 2020. We have seen all the ... 't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  classic what-classes-am-I-taking-this-term post. I'm signed up for 66 units ... , for the last two terms I've signed up for 51 units. This should be an ... I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... developed for its new Campaign For Students, a big fundraising campaign that will take us through the years leading up to our 150th anniversary. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email), though I've been sure to take some downtime for Heroes, Veronica Mars, James Bond and Borat. It looks like our early application numbers for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... , persuasion, corruption and voting. (See the syllabus on this site for a ... milestones leading to the planning, execution, write-up and presentation of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... , coming up with some ideas but telling myself there would more time during ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  a makerspace that ended up being closed for the night), then around ... my dresser, waiting to be picked up. It had been there for over a week ... back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  altogether. but as i came up with ideas for my thesis and thought about ... calling involves holding up a mirror and searching deep in yourself for the ... love and commitment. here are some of them. sometimes for me, this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  final day of freshman orientation, you can sign yourself up for as many ... price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  't really know what to do with myself; i only woke up for 10 am because i was ... : bedtime at last! i need to wake up at 9.30 for a meeting, and it takes me ... ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  somehow messed up the process for making something that only involved three ... working for the whole time. You think you're messing up something simple and ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the ... around for a few minutes. We talk about CPW, and when our prefrosh are ... Talbot, the lounge next to EC's front desk, and set up the projector. I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you ... ghost haunting the corridors, and you make your way up to barker, the 24

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021