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• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... of people (MIT-affiliated and not!) descend onto MIT's campus over the ... against puzzles of any and all forms. This is the MIT Mystery Hunt: an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  a trumpet, here's a picture of a trumpet: They're about the same ... flugelhorn in the other - and a backpack full of mutes. Trumpet mutes are some of the funkiest-looking objects ever created. Here are two examples

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Not Admitted A forum.

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I think my soul is still roaming around the south of France. Anyone have five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... 't come easily, and for much of the semester, I was running on adrenaline ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the ... history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  MIT thus far.   the weight of the world felt so heavy i was ... 'm still processing the  fall I've been working really hard to take care of ... realizing the status of my mental state: I was super surprised to find that I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of the Boston Marathon"]the Sunday of Patriot's Day weekend ... , and even more debauchery than that of its forebearers. Throughout the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and ... through the middle of our room and you might even be wondering, "What?! Are those 4x4's running through the middle of your room?!" Well, yes. But here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a ... time of my famously long to-do list) I must have re-inked the fading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has helped substantially raise the registration and voting rate of MIT students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  World AIDS Day 2008 Spread the word.

  

  Today, December 1st, is World AIDS day, the day when individuals and organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic. 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Today

  • by Snively '11
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  the scope of it til this afternoon. Times Report on the Earthquake When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the ... beautiful region of the world.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 3

  

  , Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, Ernie, and Bert Today, I worked with Marivel and Prof. Laura Ceia-Minjares of the French Department. For lunch, we had ... finished off the gaming with the classic Settlers of Catan. All in all, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005