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  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... of words around to make other words[/annotation], or [annotation note

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  get my degree and get out. I also wanted to learn how to make cool ... So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  curve and certainly looks real enough - if decidedly tricky to make. Dr ... to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a ... parabaloid, a shape well known to mathematicians - or something very close to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  2UqyGeC4zcWeb6UaLv4?si=7ed1b700cb6f4fd0 Back To Life by Soul II Soul ... reasons Didn't Cha Know by Erykah Badu I'm trying to decide Which way to go ... 't know So many times I've changed my mind Guess I was born to make mistakes

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... greatness. We reported to the sailing pavilion at 5:30 am on Saturday

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  ShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  the MFA to see a screening of the documentary Urbanized. It is by Gary ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] This semester I am currently taking STS ... how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  book to make it out the door. So now it's out there, standing on its own ... [by Joan Horvath '81] "What do you DO all day?" There's a certain ... likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick ... . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my ... up to give a talk, and embarrassed a couple kids by bringing them up to

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better ... years trying to make wherever you are as amazing as you can (as you ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet ... (being a biologist, E. coli make me nervous)... bad news. So after making a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  'm filming one. Wednesday, I was joined by Anjana to attend an information ... This entry might make it seem like all I do is eat food, but I ... to celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. I returned to my Texas roots

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... ” on freight railroads. This means that trains are often asked to stand-by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything! Really taught me how to actually make most anything. Expect to spend a lot ... sand in neat patterns to make transistors and other circuit elements ->

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for them to broaden their horizons, and students like me get swayed by status ... , and the realistic impulse to be a part of and be recognized by the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  voucher sent to me by an upperclassmen. as i walk, a thought pops into my ... though? we'll be on campus, surrounded by people, able to go wherever we ... by the register to wait for my order, listening to the soft jazz and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  one. Need to finish that by Thursday. My week's a mess, agreed? No ... knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other day when, instead, you can listen to freshmen who are less jaded and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  -Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the Center for International Studies. What makes the talk particularly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006