Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... least for now -- "How to Succeed at the MIT Mystery Hunt by Being Really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  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 ... 12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... chocolate ice cream. Being MIT students, we also analyzed the chemical and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... -gathering tactic. MIT students have trouble resisting free food. I think that all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens ... an important question is how did I end up here at MIT? Well, let's take ... can do one step better?) Perhaps this is why? Or maybe had MIT heard

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the ... folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  from this year's integration bee at MIT. But first, a little bit about ... back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my ... that I meant to put up with my entry the MIT Integration Bee last week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  us if we were from MIT. Somehow, we got onto the topic of organic ... Greene. He was at MIT before my grandpa graduated from high school, and ... interesting facts about MIT back in the days. (In the style of Sam) DID YOU KNOW

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of my favorite things about the MIT schedule -- we have approximately one ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  like MIT's mission to use science and technology to improve the world is ... of MIT's Cross Country team, so he can afford the calories, and he UROPed at MIT this summer, so he can afford the price. Our location

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  MIT alum '04. The basic idea behind the project was that they would take ... 'm hoping there'll be an MIT stop. Here at MIT, there's MIT Student ... Brown? Me: You know, Bob Brown, MIT provost. Friend: Oh, I thought you

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  Mari and Prof. Patrick Henry Winston. Winston is what we at MIT call a "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students cross-register with Harvard undergraduate courses, because MIT and Harvard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  mail, only to find NOTHING from MIT. So, I have taken matters into my own ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... cable, and my laptop. Now I can check not only if I have anything from MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  sit through an information session with Karyn Blaser (MIT Admissions Rep ... center) 2:04 -- I just led everybody through a game of MIT Hangman. I ... MIT student didn't die! 2:06 -- Most of the students here are seniors

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  done research in high school to be admitted to MIT. We do hope that even ... not in Intel has the same grades and apply to MIT, whose likely to get in? Do I have a chance to get into MIT considering the fact that I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• 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 ... at MIT?” To be honest… IDK either, it kinda just happened; but  Maybe

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Correct! It's made even more impressive by the fact that MIT ... sniped me like that, but it made me wonder how much Gemini knows about MIT ... does it know that a typical non-MIT person wouldn’t? “How many windows

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of ... , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022