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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  Times are a changin’ around the Institvte. This year, sorority ... sorority is really like, I felt that I should explain why sororities are both ... information…. (from the MIT Panhel website) Over 400 women are in sororities at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  moment would be the profound, climactic scene, where the music swells and ... cursed time. Things are getting really hard, the work is piling up, and yet ... big black car, which made her happy; while the very act of driving

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  together. It’s an incredible thing to be in an environment where you are perfectly loved and accepted, and where you are able to effortlessly enjoy ... early (late?) 6:00 at MIT is. As I made the familiar trek past Mac

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  are some highlights: Alumni Alex C. '21 “He may have made the single ... “Hank made me feel like science was for me, for the kids that are chatty ... about the polished successes, but the failures too, because those are part

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  approaching ships, setting them aflame. Several years later (September 2004

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  , I thought perhaps free will didn’t exist, because suddenly every other ... , which numbers to call to reach different park rangers. In fact, I made so ... one, our weekends are Sunday and Monday, instead of Saturday and Sunday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  because my logic approaching inversions had been based off of trapeze, where ... . However— there’s a totally different logic around pole, where you hold ... They have week-long free trials! So of course I took six classes in one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  here and there where ChatGPT and future tools are banned, like ... , especially those who are focused on writing and teaching. So I was pleased to ... .I.-assisted writing. CMS/W is where I did my grad degree, and also occasionally teach

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using free plane tickets, but I am so tired of being alert and awake. I am also ... of campus (it's very woody). Brunch is at Berkeley, where several grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  yet here I am, struggling to remember just exactly where I was 2 years ... hundreds of individual breaths are held in still air. One last moment to ... it goes.   Satisfied As I made way to my seat, the air buzzed with a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  ’ve gotten to the point where they have all these instructions and are figuring ... Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for ... in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  decisions made by an ILG are made by its students and alumni members. Since ... friggin' cold here right now? Where I come from, we don't have things like ... dormitory/Greek life. Independent Living Groups are cooperative houses of 20

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  This summer my friends (who are around, instead of doing cool internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... announcements for free activities. Over Memorial Day weekend, we met the Boston 1

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  , or a way to sink free time, to pursue things i find interesting like ... . things are okay. things have been okay for a while now. i go to bed and ... work, but on the inside i feel okay about myself. two So when are you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  this very philosophical blogpost: “The Free Play of Cliché: You are what ... the world around me in the spirit of “you are what you eat.” The results ... aside from a few scattered moments of worry-free bliss such as freshman

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  's homepage), as well as our core print mailings, but made them a little more ... be invaluable for bloggers (and readers) moving forward. Here are some things that are genuinely new to the site to the visitor: we added

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  Last December I blogged about judging Trashion 2014, an event where ... competitive paper airplaines. There are three categories to the event: distance ... the categories at each qualiflyer. Distance and hangtime are measured by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  schedule, but I don't really know where I'm going or why it's worth the time ... entire campus could use a giant coffee, yet I just made a big post about ... relaxation flows. Here are two videos that I really enjoy, in case you need a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer ... are overseas and so I needed to ask them via e-mail. There were e ... to as I prepared said e-mails. And, guess where those were? Yes, so, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  'd had enough of piggyback-riding, and said, "I'm getting off now." I made ... /Treasurers/Important People in student groups on campus, where they will discuss how to apply ... hear about soon from Snively. #4 is about a free A cappella concert

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008