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

  

  was approaching like a derailed train headed toward Charleston, West ... kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great

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

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... opportunity for a more personal admissions process, that, after all, shouldn

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  Nice was spend a night in our Pension Grillparzer-esque hostel, which ... piece in the entire museum -- a mutilated mannequin torso stuffed with ... an exhibition entitled "Les Raynaud de Raynaud," featuring French

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I'm a drummer. You probably knew that, but you most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I pretend to twirl a drum stick - to prove it. So let me fix that: Because

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  comprehensive wiki, a huge google drive, and regular "cluedumps", or transition ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned--you should always have a backup ... anything lined up. I cursed myself for wandering through Career Fair with a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and afterwards there's a gigantic meet-and-greet. They come armed with free samples ... 're their number one fans. Get a picture of the pushing crowds and the buzz

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  can watch a live webcast of the speech here: MIT President Obama Live ... The President will tour a research laboratory at the Massachusetts ... solar, battery, and wind technology, and a LED light experiment. Below is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  got a job offer last year from Google[x] that was too good to turn down, so we’re doing the long-distance thing for a few years while he Googles ... I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  closest with Tom DeWitt, a marketing professor (also on the committee) at ... Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  a few weeks before our application opens, there are some things you can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... -developing a technique called RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi gives scientists the ... from MIT; he is now a professor at Berkeley. If his surname sounds

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... is a replacement for Artificial Intelligence, so it would fulfill a ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  listings. For a visual tour-de-SHASS, you can also stare at this gorgeous ... ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , the orchestra played Debussy’s Clair de Lune and a piece from E.T. the ... Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  feels like such a relief. Warm showers are my second favorite thing, after ... -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to take over from yogurt as a daily breakfast? I got on the road at 12

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple ... is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... am, to have regular access to a 3D printer and a laser cutter and drill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  ’ve read several chapters of a book on Africa’s history (Petite Histoire de l ... lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have regular psets, but almost all of my classes have assigned reading! A week

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  . Ann Makosinski, a Google Science Fair winner at 15. She's been featured ... After attending many entrepreneurship networking events as a college ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016