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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  football team completed its historic regular season with a 24-13 victory over ... New England Football Conference crown and were selected for the 2014 ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the ... except for one– glow in a certain sequence: the singular purple bulb ... for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... ="I’ve heard people say this actually kinda works for algorithms, but thus far it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  words. He eventually enrolled. At a recent event for parents of students ... insisted he come outside for a few minutes. The youngster began juggling ... University stood out, but for the wrong reasons. Raymond A. Brown, dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  ://listart.mit.edu/student_loan_art_collection. It’s a really cool program that lets you keep art for the entire ... side is her wardrobe and the other side has a shelf for her make up and ... [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  year for a project of this scope) as the design is iterated upon and ... throughput and meeting what I anticipated would be a high demand for rides. The ... it was a project constructed for freshman orientation weekend

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  beginning. There exists a popular webcomic called xkcd. Its creator: Randall ... hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He's kind of a big deal around here. Then one day there was this: I had a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a ... source of unmediated content reflects a wide range of ideas that are

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  looking back, I'm grateful for a lot of the classes that I took, or was ... ="note that there are a few missing - i got credit for 18.01 and 18.02 but im ... no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... of people trying on VR for the first time. It's always a magical moment ... January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  tinkerer/builder type who had a passion for creation. I wore around my MIT ... was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn ... This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... .           3. However little time there is, use it. For example, in learning a ... planning for the next day at night, every night. I needed to recuperate for a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... for those who cannot afford education or healthcare) and Embrace (a ... project last year (a training class for nurses regarding first aid

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a ... a hockey-related event almost every day; for hours at a time. And it's always refreshing to see people get up and leave during classes for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  finalists in a national contest sponsored by GE and MTVU? Go vote for ... /4" tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu and ... seriously looks like she's having a heart attack right now, so I'm too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Professor Virk. He would wear a North Face jacket to class every day for 10 ... ." 21F.402: German II -- I was hoping for a little review of German I, but ... the song for this medley, since that's pretty much the one song in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  held a retirement party for Howard. Howard was there on time. There were ... and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

      A fun problem, from my 10-year-old brother’s Russian math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  any throttling. My parents' wifi generally goes out for a few minutes at ... day in August, I checked my parents' front porch for a package from IS ... plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020