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• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for

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

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... (Taylor’s Version) // talked about the Vault tracks, the lyric change, the production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with ... better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I ... classwork on campus (more informally known as psetting). The places were

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some ... run with our mom (she was visting us), and got side tracked along the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery within the next 45 seconds because...   ...how could I not go? The de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the ... dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the ... appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my head. The warmth, which had faded, returned, and lingered over the past month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... , including undocumented students) could not apply to MIT during the Early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

    Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave The Daily Show, which he has hosted since 1999. The news shocked his studio audience and his far-flung fans. Maybe that was the case for you. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest ... the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the next 6 months! ^ from the Infinite Corridor to 1 Infinite Loop  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I personally was ... weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments ... questions with answers that can be found easily on the website or that require

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. The MIT Transfer ... reminders: The transfer application deadline is November 15. (There will be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, "Wait - but it's the middle of April ... what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... all e-mailed me (aren't you proud, Mom? I made it all by myself!): (The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010