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• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... ” computers). Somehow, finding this led you to the grocery produce number for a ... -variant word search. Stare at it for a few minutes, and you begin to comprehend

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  have been thinking about 9/11 a lot lately, because unlike most of you, I ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  , because this is a word with some meaning behind it. And for me ... the US (in New Jersey, no less!) for 21 years and Spain for a month and ... ?" Aarrrgghhh! Please, for a moment, just imagine this. You are really frustrated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you ... talk about. The sidewalk is level for a while. And then it leads down ... for a long time. We spent five minutes there, and then we left. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his speech at the 148th Commencement. On Friday, August 22nd 2014 at 11am, President L. Rafael Reif was doused with ice water from a ten foot tall wooden

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two ... importantly, you’ll find a little community of students with similar backgrounds ... dressed as the King of Boston for Halloween, a completely nonsensical

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  younger brother a mistake, and stop taking the cable box apart for poops and ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... . I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so here's a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  ever read in my life. so it holds a lot of importance. i could go into ... LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read ... tumblr for a good chunk of time, amassing a lot of followers but a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  probably for a lot of RA students, this is one of the most pressing questions ... colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school, for the school to know more about you as a person, and for you to address

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  . I have a lot of options for college (harvard, brown, stanford, tufts ... this is a very good educational option for students, like in schools with ... great place for some people. MIT is a great place for some people. I hope

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  content is appropriate? Organize a soundcheck and rehearsal for every ... the most important steps in putting on a successful show. Six hours ... noon for soundcheck, 8 hours later we had put on a show! I want to thank

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  RingComm email advertising Ring Premiere[/caption] For each class, a ... fancy clothes and gather as a graduating class for a night of music and ... class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn't accept applications for first-year admission if you currently hold an undergraduate degree. Students who have already completed a bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  a giant bag of candy. The important thing about ELLs is that, even ... Leadership Laboratories (ELLs), and one thing I’ve realized since I became a second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  visiting campus, but it was also my first time in Boston/Cambridge. Here is a ... MIT, the more I was certain that MIT is the perfect fit for me. This only made me more excited to be on campus. My CPW weekend was off to a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  each frat sets up a table under the tent on Kresge that’s used for ... Rush shirts. Every year, for Kresge Kickoff, IFC designs a shirt that ... from the entrance and walking by each table, pausing for a moment if it

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a ... translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some ... bookstore warehouse... which is totally a story for another entry. I then went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. Here are a ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... , I attended a few Zoom sessions in the morning for [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  cooked this summer! I have linked a recipe for each one.   Overnight ... source of protein!). But it was ridiculous to be paying $10 a day for a ... a good thing for me, other creatures, and the earth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019