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• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  even sent a police officer down in Crystal River, Florida, to check it ... For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... -controlled set in a "disembodied performance" that integrates with and enhances the ... . And hey, while we're all waiting for the Opera to show up a little

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... things to say about everyone else. Really, we all loved being in that room ... ) and February of this year. Last semester, on a whim, I decided to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  With a record number of applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!

  

  eating an entire box of cookies and a bag of sun chips. Needless to say, I'm never eating either of those again. If you want to join in and remote

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also, if anyone took any pictures, I may be able to post a few here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  and experienced entrepreneurs with skilled volunteer mentors. VMS uses a team mentoring approach with groups of three to four mentors sitting with the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day-to
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... . If a cookie appears N times in the monster, then replace it with its ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  a funny little thing. As the days go on, it becomes harder to return. Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... . A few of us jammed to Latin jazz at Wally's Jazz Club, out in Boston

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ~1300 designers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ~1300 designers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee ... a beaver? Another interesting story. In 1914, Lester Gardner of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester in notes wordless words

  

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... — literally just — in time for my flight to Denver and 2 hour-long midnight uber

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  *THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!! ROOM TOURS! GET YOUR ROOM TOURS!

  

  brought back the infamous b1ner cribs, and Layla and I (although in a triple ... 's worth of space to fill.[annotation note="or, as i like to call it, a ... "]floor chairs[/annotation], we managed to secure the largest double in Burton

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 16, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ;    You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you ... in to decisions.mit.edu.   Between Early and Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter. “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... after a bit, that commotion died down, And I went back to physics and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008