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  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history, check out this classic article

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little ... at more than just the numbers. Now I took N AP classes, got X on my SAT ... indicate your preparedness for college. I recently realized this with my

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  with their college t-shirt on, rightly proud of their future home for the ... Cambridge to buy an MIT t-shirt -- the power of the Internet! Yes, over at ... website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  variable is responsible for the fact that we sold out Lobdell Food Court: 1 ... you farewell at the CPW desk, but here at MIT, it happens. Being able ... get psyched and ready for their performance. Nance gives Ben a

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... we have not processed it. We will not look at your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  around here lately. We are busily preparing for Campus Preview Weekend -- setting up events, matching prefrosh (that's MIT jargon for you, the ... going on this week at MIT, as always -- a video art lecture tonight that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  @mit.edu   ~ For you first-time or novice traders, come try it out! See the ... the world of high finance; it will also serve as a powerful platform for ... financial engineering. "Our overall goal at Sloan is to spur innovation by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  for with really-ugly-free-t-shirts-that-I-only-wear-to-bed-and-embarrassingly-to-the-bathroom-at ... itself was nice. We got yelled at for trying to go on the roof of the ... , but I feel like we're connected on at least some minor spiritual level

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... body at one time.  While I won’t be dying to zombified piglins or getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  Ciudad de México for Dia de los Muertos was not a real tradition at the ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... . After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  get an idea of what type of things different people work better at. For ... PhD student at Stanford. My main interest is extremal combinatorics ... majors, currently a master's student at the University of Cambridge

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  because they're really expensive, but could be handed out for free at the ... magazine hand-out at the student center, but this year, the board chose to ... arts at MIT. Put together over the course of the year by a team of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  man-eating couch for Make MIT, I got really good at using joysticks and ... for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... acquired standards for friends). But what hit me the hardest was I realized I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  average student takes while at MIT, it was a number I felt comfortable with ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... two record weeks of fall 2020.']at a level I had scarcely seen while at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  ominous - “Important news for the Senior House community” - which then was ... House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... your tastes at Senior House. And if you can’t peg yourself on this either

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... , Street-Fighting Mathematics, at the MIT Press (read the book here ... reaching for a calculator. EXAMPLE #1: consider being in a room with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  monitoring and adjusting orientation. Life at MIT isn’t so different. You ... life shoves you. *(Credit for this analogy goes to retired astronaut ... ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the ... "job" -- yes, a fun one at that, but a job nonetheless. And others don ... ?), and maybe they aren't first or even last in line at the free finals

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  bunch of work backed up and waiting for me. (Yes, I highlight some cool ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... deadlines and actually feeling compelled to put forth the effort for paper

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024