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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is ... around. What you're looking for is "plastic" ice. The sort of stuff that ... layers of ice build up, sometimes the good stuff is buried beneath a layer

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a ... combining the answers of several puzzles. Often, these metas are also combined ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  [Part of the Up-Goer Blogs] Every year, a group of so ... Better Than I Thought It Would Be Bar-Be as the Lady with a Lot of Money ... of my second year at college. The Show That I Thought Was Good but Then

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas ... 't. 10:32 pm: I once tread water for ten minutes as part of the MIT swim ... , bed, etc.). The hours of intermission sort of blurred into a watery blob

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday naps in the sun. My mom had been feeding them some of her chinese cooking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little"]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... . one of these we sometimes call the phrasing game: where you choose a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... have completed the processing of the materials submitted, I will post ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of ... that are parked on a small ramp at the end of the match. Teams get 6 jam

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  Today is the official beginning of Spring Weekend at MIT. The ... Concert. Here are some of the highlights from past years. In parentheses are ... from the band (if different). For some of these bands, choosing a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of ... now in front of this big window overlooking the busy street of Mass Ave ... Snickers happily snuggled into my side. I miss the smell of freshly prepared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... , and I'm still traumatized from the very short period of time in which I ... .805 (Foundations of Internet Policy): This is the first law class I have ever taken

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Regardless of your admissions decision, you will continue to be the good ... , the complete text of Atlas Shrugged, which ended up winning the hunt ... like puzzles solve puzzles all weekend long. Some of the puzzles are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the ... anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad ... complexity of patterns and the neck-breaking speed that some people crocheted

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them ... Airbnb in the suburbs of Phoenix and literally had no other books left ... , and the son ventures in to find traces of his father. His mother knows

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... his research “has centered on the application of theoretical particle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It ... ask Fodor? Has anybody ever read any of Fodor's stuff?) The way I see ... . It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... open this door you will likely receive a shock to the palm of your hand

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008