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  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  8 months ago, an email from MIT asking me for money read something like: Dear student, Your monthly student account statement has been posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY…

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• 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 to be. It’s also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don’t freak out,…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special gratitude to Zahir Dossa,…

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  The expectations for second semester seniors are high. By then, you have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or doing homework. What do you…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and hoping its selection…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  I’ve missed mystery hunt every year so far. Freshman year I found myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling moldy. By Sunday…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  This is my friend Kat ’10, and she’s one of my very favorite people. My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to meet…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  ¡Buenos días! from Spain! While these festivities are going on at MIT proper, I have been in Spain for more than two weeks! I don’t know how many students from…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of me (maybe that’s a good thing?), but I come to you today with important news! Our faculty, an…

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  [by Danbee Kim ’09] My mother, like any other parent, likes to keep tabs on what I’m learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she gave…

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They’re a great team of MIT alums; lots of really…

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So…there’s this Mystery Hunt thing…you might have heard of it. It’s awesome. It’s lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or keep working on those puzzles…

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen today at Noon EST.…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  Okay, so Bryan just started a Mystery Hunt LiveBlog, but I’m being immature and want to do it too, so you guys will just have 2 entries to read to…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes … ahh! Update #2 (7:17 AM)…

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP’s most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  Hey all, just another entry about the EA Telethon madness. I ended up helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to write up a…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  7:17 pm Tonight is the EA admit telethon, wherein we spend all night calling all 522 admitted freshmen and saying things like “HI! OMG OMG OMG YOU’RE A PREFROSH AND…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said “You have to watch this.” After…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event – a screening of a few selections from the upcoming movie “Jumper”, as well as a discussion panel including Hayden Christensen, director Doug…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008