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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)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a quintessential representation of MIT culture. I love that beautiful little dude. It ... hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... ! Audrey: Yeah! So this will be Arcturus’ second year of competition. Last ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation ... .   Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... buildings seemed to be the embodiment of innovation, the students I saw

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  , occasionally painful (my lips hurt!) reconnection with my lovely set of brass ... a trumpet, here's a picture of a trumpet: They're about the same ... ridiculously gigantic plate of fish + sweet potato fries + calamari EVER

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  ridiculous number of TV shows. It's been fabulous! The test itself was pretty ... feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe ... grocery store, in July. As for running, I don’t have many pictures of that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010