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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... visits at least once every day. Because it's MIT, the Infinite is also a ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college ... , but are a few that I'm familiar with and can think of as I'm sitting ... could share in the joy!" Well, now you can share the excitement! [I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  applicants. The idea is that the answers tell us something about the applicant ... dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they ... answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for transfer in the spring. I’d have a plethora of extracurriculars. I wouldn ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... Mystery Hunt that I think all I'll be able to manage is an entertaining ... , let's see, when you do that you get a series of numbers that all seem

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters - compared to that, Twin Peaks is merely a foothill!) Polish mountains are ... - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  can for sure say that I feel the most confident I've been, which is a ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours ... their excitement is infectious. It's made me realize how excited I am for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , “How are you?” “I’m okay.” “No, how are you doing, really?” After a long ... to action: “Is there any way you can send me a list of things I can ... faculty, I am very proud that an NSE student is leading this very important

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk ... in a puffy jacket minding her own business. Anyway, I was in high ... Urban Dictionary, Hell Week is “a situation in which a person spends a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  is में (encoded as \u092e\u0947\u0902). THING I WROTE: so how can we ... that is why it is in our nature to attempt to make other people more like ... identities; when we say "this is who i am" we simultaneously say "that is who i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in ... normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  ’t know that most Jewish music was in Hebrew or Yiddish, and I didn ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group ... performing in Attleboro, Spring 2011 Techiya is also a very social group

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  thin strip of fabric that curled outward like a mustache, so I replaced ... volunteer in a dog costume as the ring bearer. I’m not entirely sure where she ... in the video. What's crazy is that it was entirely written by him and

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... . This, in essence, is my theory of why pass/no record thinly obscures a ... test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... !) The UPOP office is a great resource that teaches career skills and encourages leadership development. Next week I have a personal UPOP meeting in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  really like when things are clean, to the extent that I can’t p-set in a ... a spelling exam.” “Is that what it was?” “Yes, Mr. Concord, it was their spelling exam.” “In that case, how were your—“ In the twins’ room

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... when I was finished: ...this is despite the fact that I moved out ... , because now I can put up a few photos from moments that were good enough to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  student that I am working with is a third year PhD student working on the ... that I wasn’t doing it right. I think I’m on a good track right now, and ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  my favorite poems (if not my favorite) is “anyone lived in a pretty how ... haven’t done in a year, but let’s not talk about that"]walking onto Putz ... Mystery Hunt, and that we have a culture in general, which fosters these

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021