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  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... layer-on-layer big-games in the world. It is a very important bringing ... works the way it does. It is the best, hardest, and most fun big-game in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... country and around the world. Spending time in settings like these is ... in question because educational institutions have abdicated their

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... ] Daylight Saving Time For some reason, the shift in daylight savings threw my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my silly little mental health walks, sometimes to dog-watch in local parks

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order: Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin ... fort party Got a temporary neck tattoo Popped a balloon in front of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  Summer has [annotation note="in academic calendar only. it is ... 's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their ... walking to the end of the world (in Minecraft), has strong opinions about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... wisdom, but I’ve certainly done it. So here, in a collection of vignettes ...   I like telling people that I’m a six-foot-tall man in my head. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big lecture halls in the Stata Center"]32-123[/annotation] and PE registration ... all other holes in our instruments. [caption id="attachment_79499

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  that I should've worked harder in my classes, even though I also know ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you ... movies watched way too late at night. In the absence of doing these things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a ... less. i have never ordered a venti in my LIFE. before we reached the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in 2021 and beyond). We made this decision after considerable study, in ... research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and ... the day. Where are you reading? I'm lucky I live in the suburbs and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The Source in Buena Park, Baekjeong on Beach Blvd, my aunt's house in Cerritos ... back in California because every memory here is now slightly tainted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure ... , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... , with a minor in biomedical engineering. Then, that changed when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  .e. not planning on flaking, in contrast with light blue). yellow are ... block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it big. And it looks like people understand that now: my audience in Des

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019