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  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  ... congrats to those who got it! COOKIE MONSTER by Marcy Levey, Brian Tivol, and Roger Barkan First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context ... overshadowed by the question of whether i am entitled to feel sad, whether i have reason enough. it is weird to say that even sadness is a rich feeling

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  look up to and feel mildly intimidated by. Mahla is a trained artist ... you have something horizontal to hold on to, which makes holding ... week. Then I went ‘n’ had a lotta thoughts and present to you many of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... by being a blogger this year, it's that most of the incoming freshman ... . See, reading is a huge part of my life. My mom used to beg me to put the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  by a single pixel, and even though I recognize her (me), it's like ... 'm preserving this image of a CHILD by embedding it here[/caption] On June 5th ... -town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were required to by MIT"]flu shot[/annotation] and felt so...distant? maybe it was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time ... you can't predict how a robot is going to look like by the end of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil ... internship took up a lot of time, okay? Anyway, to the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ="91612" /] Our design team made over 50 balloon-animal dogs by hand, a reference to ... , a reference to The Son of Man by René Magritte. Angela, our head of ... That Lead to Love, others suggested by MINCE members.  A few of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  games of all time has to be Zork, a text based adventure game made by MIT ... consider to be “the most exciting thing i did over CPW.”   I stole a ... to MIT campus. I went there a few weeks ago and ended up buying a VHS

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  makes a lot of anti-asian statements, but very hard for me to deeply hate ... , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... hard, and crafting a personal identity that you love is supposed to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... doing 18.03 (diff eq) together; a smaller group gathers to do 8

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... words to give shape to this looming story, it persisted like a large ... substance that MIT once did--a height to be contemplated and admired, never

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .    Peter started by explaining how he had to postpone a number of ... answered by telling us that he had first come to MIT wanting to be a film ... hours of their time to making sure students feel comfortable with the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... did cheerleading, because I got to have fun with a great group of people ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  up to the city of San Francisco where I had a relatively smaller ... already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the ... meeting with you for an MIT interview. Now, to answer a few questions I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , because despite 26-100 being a gigantic lecture hall, nobody thought to make ... velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013