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  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed the storyline, the adventures we had, our victories and defeats, and ... little glimpse into the average Mystery Hunt puzzle solving session and a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  't seem to make sense Everything was going well Guess that was just the ... the cool things about helping run HMMT is the staff exchanges. My first ... the pandemic happened, and I didn't go to any. But last weekend I got to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  This [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month ... finished, so I decided with the extra time that I would go visit my ... ="because apparently y'all care about TikTok THAT much"]the second most important event

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 ... will be my general thoughts about being in MITWE. Day 7 It was the day before the big concert; naturally, the entire afternoon was blocked out for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  burgers for the entire weekend, so i did not feel great when i got home ... wonderful—we hiked, walked around the town, and hung out in our super nice ... days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... Pluto, much crisper than the 1996 Hubble photo. Right now the probe is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  life. In other words, the more catered Chipotle, rush burgers, or local pizza consumed, the higher one’s overall satisfaction with life in general ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  to our suitcases. I probably should’ve put my suitcase on the luggage ... elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a beautiful monument. I don’t know how I convinced Linh to brave hours under the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, that said "YOU GOT THE GIG!" I simply did not believe it.  I was sitting ... .  I looked at my computer and I saw the e-mail, and it was just

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise ... even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious ... , though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the ... planning each meal down to the ingredient – until one big question remained: Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... variety of topics. Usually, the release of each issue has been marked by a magazine hand-out at the student center, but this year, the board chose to

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

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... cuts in, and it shows the result you'll get when you unfold it. It ... this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... undergraduate congregate. Through an ornate gate, the cart I did elevate and escalate. The journey to migrate this crate did culminate, to where it did

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022