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  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  'm sitting at my kitchen table, eating leftover baked ziti I just heated up. I ... arrive at Hunt Headquarters. Somebody give me something to do.... Friday ... !!! Saturday, 22:06 So far I've looked at ANOTHER horrendous crossword, some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  interesting or something, yeah yeah, sarcasm, she's okay at it, whatever..." and ... worked and no numbers at all to back up my assertion, but it's good enough ... , Craig, hasn't been around much at all this summer. I can't hold it against

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  perfect score. And that’s not what I mean at all. If you’re stressing over ... someone is going to look at your application and say, “Oops, well, if only ... think about that for a minute. (When you're done laughing at how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... , there's an extrememly wide variety of people at MIT. Your dad's stereotype ... -- the acceptance rate for MIT kids at the top several medical schools is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... say that at chemical engineering faculty luncheons and choice of major ... --an actuary (at the time, it was rated as the #2 job in the world in terms of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  spent all that much time doing homework. I was good at cutting the corners ... challenging courseload and doing a zillion extracurriculars at once and ... would have said at the end of last semester. I still like the time

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  figure out if you really like it or not. My second term at MIT, 18.100B ... a reason. I'm not particularly good at thermodynamics, but last spring ... years after taking AP Bio, and didn't feel unprepared for them at all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  .03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back ... mad at me because my kindergarden teacher wanted to talk to her, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  reasons you have stayed at MIT?" Nothing too exciting, I'm afraid, for the ... am not, for the record, a star student at MIT), but I like that I am ... partially agree with you. :) The vast majority of people at MIT are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  relates back to chemistry. I promise you that I understood all of this at ... about 10 seconds to realize that it wasn't a cell phone at all- the last ... arrive at Mystery Hunt. I grabbed my camera and headed for Lobby 7, where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  assignments that you have to do yourself with a huge group project at the end ... grade. i'm having trouble with my hw so i stop by her house at night for 3 ... scale. And I would be correct, at least according to my beliefs about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  developments that await him. His height at birth was six feet, three inches, and ... girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... rest is history. I arrived late last Saturday night at East Campus, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  “from North Carolina”? A mainland girl at heart? Nothing can beat my dad ... [/annotation]. It’s hard to proudly claim the identity “American” when a guy at Mc ... ’s marching band uniform. I thought of waking up at 3 am to a “team alive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to ... and 6PM. So we had planned on leaving at 4PM to play it safe. So before ... last run at 3:30PM. Got to the bottom of the mountain and realized I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  did? I set my interview for 10:45 AM on Tuesday, and I woke up at 10 ... interview at 10:52. Seven minutes late. I was totally out of breath and asked ... . In defeat, I looked at my phone and saw a message in a Cru group chat

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  canceling of her shows at the beginning of the pandemic and how she felt that ... everything to get you laughing at me I'm still a believer but I don't know why ... that trapeze I'm still trying everything To keep you looking at me

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  what I would double in—mit only assigns majors at the end of the first ... semester of sophomore year. at the time, computer science seemed like the ... that later). however, the first semester at mit is taken on pass

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty ... the music video, Mitski, a half-Japanese woman, waves at a white boy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : Yeah. I guess we're not really at the vantage point to pass judgment at it. CJ: But by the time we are at that point… Anna: …then it ... , right? CJ: Yeah. And the only thing I've done before this was a UROP at a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte ... , haggling," said Masha). Weld Your Own Bike (at D-Lab) This class actually started at the very end of fall semester. MIG welding was a pre-requisite to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022