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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... absolutely crushed during my fall semester when I have to take it as a class ... "going to a dead guy's house," I visited the house of poet Henry Wadsworth

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to solve over a hundred puzzles and put the answers together to find a coin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go to chem lecture today, walking across the East Campus courtyard where ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... 's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  ”, gave a final suggestion against cards, and left. I find it hard to ... older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... a call to tech support, I'm about to tell you. When I show up at IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... urges to blog every time I see a computer...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it ... tackled. I think it’s a nice book to read and relax while sitting by the ... English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped ... by the sun. He also wore a wide, toothy smile. He said to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like ... on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a ... academia which is what I think I'd want to do with a PhD, but I'm 20 years

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... . Someone on College Confidential had posted a link to a countdown timer ... timer ticked its way to less than 30 hours, my palpable fretting grew a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  from students with something to report. If you're in a school that ... . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise ... convert them to a letter system for example. If you need to explain your

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... starters, Lobby 7, the entrance to MIT from the road, was transformed into a ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  I didn't start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a terrible desire to spend money on food at least once a day. This certainly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team ... emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... decided that it would use a format where teams answered questions in their

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack to the future.         Like many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to ... , you should know that at MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  . MINCE had a cake picnic, where 30 bakers each baked a cake for people to ... be a thing. They thought about it for a bit, talked to Caltech’s admissions office, and then decided it was a bit too strange to officially

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  SCHOOL. Puts me to shame.  They also have a youtube channel where they ... , and the path that Chavo had to walk in his life as a wrestler. I went ... known to be a “cheater” in the ring, and would try to get Chavo to fight

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  began. Each presentation had to last a maximum of eight minutes, followed ... repeatedly. A small experiment asking the audience to shift gazes between their ... -giving earphones? Nah.) A possible solution to this: MIRA, a high-tech helmet

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013