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  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  year, we had teams come and put on fake Broadway productions. These ... , unabashed law and policy geek. Before I began working at MIT, I was a Research Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay

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

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  to learn, and it's a bit like being dumped straight into the deep end. GTL? IFC? ADT? On top of the new place names and numbered courses, it can almost feel like learning a new dialect. Two and a half years later

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  The MIT Glass Lab Robert Urban and the Koch Institute for Integrative ... making of MIT Imagination, along with some b-roll and a montage of mascot ... of love by many people at MIT. CREDITS: Written and directed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks. It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... problem, except that 1) it was 45 degrees and raining, and 2) I had no idea

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  execution is leftover in some micro-architectural state, and now an attacker ... day of your last Course 21W class, your last Course 6 class, so on and ... everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  current friends, in which we discussed the current states of our lives and how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... It's late Saturday night, Sunday morning by Boston time, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... about a decade ago and have been captivated ever since. CrashCourse and SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  around ⊥IW. You can see the hunt website and puzzles here: perpendicular.institute ... accidentally trapped herself in a perpendicular universe, and we needed to power ... ."][/annotation]was the 41st annual MIT Mystery Hunt and my third time participating. The

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

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  .” Every sneeze is different. Degree of head or body tilt (before and during ... this blog post. It is highly relevant and important. As you all know, it ... . But alas, while all my friends and family were out enjoying the hot

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  Motion of Manhattan and other photos from the busy city next door.

  

  More snippets of life; A sequel photoblog to Colors of Campus Series inspired by Kai’s Parallel Universe Post

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 29, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  , and Cristina Dalle Ore (SETI Institute) react to seeing the spacecraft ... . Now works for the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). "When Leslie and ... Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  bed, gave me some tomato juice and a kiss on either cheek.  But what I ... . I told them about my dad, and how I had been fifteen the last time I ... books belonged to whom, and they’d get all mixed. When they inevitably did

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  matter" like stars and galaxies. The other 95 percent of the universe is a ... with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and ... designed MIT's Kresge Auditorium and Chapel) and discovered that due to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  ..256 { let state = i; ... } ..and precalculate sliding moves for each state ... wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... , Aidan Chambers, is pretty good at chess and played it all the time while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  shape new macro-level institutions of work and family in society. Before ... , microstructure of stock exchanges and initial public offerings. Her current ... , corporate governance, and public offerings. She teaches financial management

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without ... was not awkward, and everything worked out fine in the end. Every once in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  says 42 degrees, raining, and crazy windy. So I was sitting at Burton ... like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it tomorrow. Look, guys, I know I'm doing a biofuels UROP and everything, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

    Christina T., Me, Erica D., and Jen L. representing MIT in ... Program, and after an application and interview, was deemed among 30 or so ... cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and ... Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night ... processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entire university of MIT. Every freshman comes in undeclared and can choose ... With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to ... entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005