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  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it's with a complete and total stranger. Most of these conversations consist

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  facilities has finally decided to recognize the Institute's gender balance with ... ) spans buildings 7, 3, 10, 4, and 8 and features the "little dome" (over ... -100), the Building 4 Cafe (4-100) and the brand-new Nanomechanical Technology

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  , there are no street names, just landmarks and Makudonarudos (Mc ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you ... to the landlord's office, and it happened even worse when I got off the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009