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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different mascots were going to have varying levels of accuracy based on the data ... a good explanation about them. Getting the mascots After I found a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  probably screwed. in other words, by the time he knows to look for the other ... relative to my body, and, say, play the E5 key with my right index finger ... job is to pop as many of them as possible. you pop bloons by placing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  know what answer I'm going to get: "the people". Being around such cool ... 've learned, once I get there. I want to help discover the best way to teach not ... into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  't normally short) if you take the index of each of the clue answers, you get ... If you continue reading this entry, you'll get the puzzle solution ... , too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme that I'd intended to carry through the journal, but by the end, my pages ... when I was rushing down the Infinite and needed to get something down

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration ... , thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final: Bostonist fx3000 But probably the place to be was the North End, Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Shuli. The fact that I was able to get this vibe, even though this year ... up something called the “Projection Device” to try and get her out. And ... good by the time [annotation note="1 AM"]we went to bed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the ... way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. expatmom asked, "I'm curious ... ... though, due to my time restrictions during application season and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the ... over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common ... admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... president; and those most impressed by his summer job -- as an intern for the coolest of cool tech companies, Google. "In the interview, they asked me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... in 20 minutes late, but Amtrak was nice enough to hold the following ... 's Kisses. However, this was compensated by the fact that they are in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  , Googled the answer, and gone back to our work. But instead, the conversation ... card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye ... ." And thus the 3am coding competition was born. First we had to set (sorry

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  leading to the COIN’s location. Oh no! It’s then quickly found by Gaby, and ... Chessex dice on Google, we were able to map the 20 sides of the D20 onto the ... numbers, indexing into each answer to get a letter. Often these two phases

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  was CHO. (3)The trick was to identify the characters played by Rogers ... maniacal fervor. By the time I returned to Random at 8:30 PM, puzzling was in ... (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor

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

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  Writing and Reading the Short Story, and 24.903 Introduction to Semantics ... 'm kinda ashamed that I'm faking my way through the humanities requirement by ... humanities classes. The Man to Send Rain Clouds (≈1750 words). A beautiful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... lot of people who seem incredibly skilled got that way by having the ... can learn it, and that the best way to learn it is to do it without

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO ... , we aren't going to satisfy the 10^18 Joules per year that the US needs ... spash page and in particular look at the Acknowledgements Section. You may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I ... eyes, took a deep breath, and flipped to a random page. Little did I know ... nonfiction book, doesn’t get you hooked as the others do – that it doesn’t tell

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed.  7. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015