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• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S ... I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  on this PDF is awesome! If you even have a slight bit of geekiness ... Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right ... seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  September or October. We look forward to seeing you! ... Beginning this coming Sunday, April 26th, MIT will be going on the ... sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  down quite yet). What I do feel like doing, though, is sharing few of the ... This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  particular culture, and the importance of listening to and building trust with ... you give them, office hours or picket line. Then I had to go: it was ... chance to attend. (This is probably the most irreverent article that will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be ... the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the ... was so, so relaxing to be out on Charles, with the gorgeous Boston

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  hours or so until I'm done with this unhealthy week. My weapon of choice ... We salute you. They say sometimes about MIT that of sleeping, studying, and socializing, you're forced to choose two. Well, they're almost

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  you out of your reading chair and into an adventure, each applicant's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of ... try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the ... Program (SSEP)Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a 2399 on the SAT I, do I need to retake it?!?" :-) More on the Q

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  Why no entries lately? Because MIT's Freshman Orientation is in full swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from yesterday. Photos courtesy of our ever

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an ... In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option of spending four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... anything. It's practically a theorem. 10:28 pm: This is a waste of blog. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  event was put on by the Division of Student Life and was a welcoming of ... down and worked for a bit while enjoying the food. Good luck to Suzy on ... calories later- I went to an event put on by the MIT Innovation Initiative

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... , so the report card was just for fun, but the serious question to ask is ... edged into those rare un-mathematical intervals of time. To start: I had

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  nervous MIT students. I'll probably put on my head phones and listen to some upbeat music to get hyped up on my march over. Pray for me. Thanks. ... I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted An open thread for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. (Later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted Posting for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2010! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates (and, later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our