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

  

  words. Couch space was at an unprecedented premium. On a tired whiteboard ... few hours and a few more false starts, I was staring at this with half ... , crosswording, board-gaming, coding, algorithm-writing, Googling

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... who represented the United States at the International Chemistry ... Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  happened to me at that point in my life because as an overachieving high school student, I didn't really fail very hard at anything. During the ... , and got rejected from Harvard, Stanford, and Trinity College at the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically ... job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of ... my alley. However, when I arrived at the Consulate, horror of horrors

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

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  storefront, here's one from Google Maps.   We got back to the house at ... Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... . Back at my bed, I suddenly had enough energy to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... can shake several sticks at. And my favorite software in the world ... steel container. In complete darkness. Walter watched, amused (at least I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had ... )/14485008384, according to the back of the shirt, and google gives the approximation 0.00237769994 + 0.10368577 i. A lot of departments at MIT have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  ! What I did not acquire at the MIT Career fair: A job. Yes, usually ... last time I took a look at everything I’ve done and organized it into a ... Google that I am summer-internship material. I already have 3 jobs! What

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  , and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the ... located at 70 Amherst St (formerly 4 Ames St), right across the street from ... remembers it. Whenever I think of my experiences with student government at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... , froshlings. You. You'll all be here in two weeks. Your friends at other schools may all know what they're doing, where their classes are, and at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  and remember some vague things about it. I remember staying up til ... around Epcot and landing in [annotation note="Epcot is a park at Disney ... break, I spent three days at Disney World (Saturday-Monday), flying into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are ... going to SAYI. We walk over to the gate and are already excited at the prospect of meeting all the desi people we will at this conference.   

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  note="I just discovered this jasmine oolong tea at a Chinatown ... that existed prior to college applications. Even at MIT, I’ve rarely felt ... what if the stars aligned?”  They didn’t, at least not on December 14th

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman ... emotional roller-coaster) and again, while applying for things at MIT, because ... ’re a freshman, and NOBODY WANTS YOU (or, at least, it feels like it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my 39 tabs open in Chrome (which is apparently the threshold at which the ... convenient signs above the hallways at every crucial junction or fork in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  semester has involved staring at statistics problems and Google Colab. And ... Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... look at how the sketch is going. That's why some of the details and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  If there's one thing I am utterly terrible at, it is prioritizing. My ... learning Haskell!" As I paged through windows at an excruciatingly slow pace ... with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  the Cold War or the ending of The Matrix trilogy, academic life at MIT ... , ungracefully truncated by the finite spacial limits of Google Calendar. Lulu is a ... recently joined the Undergraduate Women in Physics group at MIT, by which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... Dark Knight. First destination: the Kendall Square T stop at the eastern ... course, a stop at Crazy Dough's, one of Boston's many fantastic pizza

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  get to eat dinner with former MIT students who now work at companies ... to request to sit at certain companies' tables (free dinner) Then ... , people. Life skills. ** CRAZY NOTE ** At the time I'm writing this blog

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005