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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)

  

  get on top of a very tall rock, and feeling very happy when you have ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... ="puzzle hunts"]big-games[/annotation], but ours is one of the oldest and most

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

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the ... Philadelphia, but it's the best I've got on my home computer. Anyway, we arrived ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  pass each other on the way into and out of the athletic center during ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  vomited ideas on top of ideas on top of ideas, and at this point all I could ... University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be ... in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  stopped and read the first line. I started screaming on the top of my lungs ... As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... , bundled in three layers of pajamas resembling a plaid-colored icicle, on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  classes and her pen (oops- if any of her other advisees are reading this, I ... 10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  goes on. Personally I decided to go back MIT for 2 weeks and then going home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend ... . So I did a lot of traveling and therefore didn't make much money. So no

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  'm counting on you, Snively. And all you other commenters. It's just that ... that I'm biased. So I went there and I saw all the names on the list, and ... , but, but these are all my classmates, and it says 'degree awarded' on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it ... uncertainty principle makes any sense, but also how ancient nations rise, and ... eight. You say, “Mom, can I buy that entire cake and eat it?” Of course

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... and about was less daunting. I welcomed walking instead of unnecessary ... naively thought that I could see all of NYC in 3 days and was quickly

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -- approximately 4.3% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  ’ve terrified me earlier. But East Campus is home now, and any person should have ... . **** On one side of MIT lies Boston, a place of opportunity and beautifully ... of Baker House on Drop Date. Noam Chomsky is coming to speak again. And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  more..... And don’t underestimate the importance of being away from home ... engineer (or any other profession of interest for you) does on a daily basis ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  completely solo). And on top of just being injured, handling everything on my ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... idea of being vulnerable in any way —physically, emotionally, etc.— makes

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that ... . Think of it as the difference between a living thing and its fossil. A ... 't. It shows you the shape of our decisions, not the basis on which they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  had a nice home-cooked breakfast of congee with pork and preserved egg ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in ... lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature ... lasagna, tiramisu, and some kind of pumpkin roll cake thing. At this point

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• 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 ... Hi folks, Well here you have it - the new-and-improved MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  advantage of opportunities, and so on. The room was full to capacity; after we ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... communities of intellectual and social peers through them. Participation in ISEF

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  folklegend and on the depths of the internet. A memorial for the Milk is in the ... housing over the summer, trickling in from EC and MacGregor on August 13th ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022