Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no ... sustenance of a third-grader who ate nothing but lunch and slept off the sleep ... 's population had seemingly doubled on the cusp of the weekend as tides of alumni

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having impromptu dance parties of my own... ...I'M HOME AND IT'S AWESOME. More ... 's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  allowed me to live at home. For this summer, it was more economical and ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  on campus, which entailed a mix of sunny and rainy days, and cool ... the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  conceptually on the same footing as any work done by the graduate students and ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and ... . elegans, and Professor Horvitz of MIT won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... on your criteria of what's important in a college. This whole process ... who was known for his crazy sayings and no nonsense demeanor. He had

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I ... again, I was three. My understanding of Disney characters and ... Orlando from Boston on Friday and flying out on Tuesday. I went with three

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  , my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of ... and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... Diva.” 617) Being AD means that any time any of the 77 students or any

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  group processes…The description for a good leader can go on and on, but in ... serving as a source of wisdom for the young and impressionable ... programs and meetings after your arrival on campus, and associate advisors

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  from classmates, and keep your finger on the pulse of life at MIT! You ... eat home-cooked, out-of-season, traditional Jewish food on Random Hall ... mix of Cards Against Humanity and Pictionary! Shenanigans will ensue

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  the effects of head turns in artificial gravity on the neurovestibular system, which is the inner ear structure that creates a sense of balance ... nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... went downstairs and took full advantage of the free breakfast buffet. And ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... comes in on time, writing last minute stories, and essentially making sure that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the ... middle end of the spectrum. On the one hand, it's an entire week without

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016, and you no longer feel like the youngest part of the MIT community ... of the year frenzy when finals come rolling out, and everyone was too

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat ... end of my life points, I took a gaspingly unprecedented risk and whipped out the Lagrangian Formulation (on an introductory E&M exam!) and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  and theme of the 2021 Hunt. It will not contain any spoilers for ... to make a lot of progress on the subpuzzles and when we took a break to ... -song playlist, and there was a song from Rent on it. I had identified that one of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  there were only a couple of hallways and none of them had any forks ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course ... ) and should I go all the way back home (yes, I’m calling it home) in the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  you to some of my friends, and to the hall on which I'm temporarily ... seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River ... considering the past. And as I type this from an aisle seat on a flight bound

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005