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  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  (to you, dear reader), because Sam was basically the coolest blogger of ... Awkward" has been murdered, and we've been charged with the task of figuring ... "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  instance, in the first week of class we produced a simple music player. We ... the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing ... . Unfortunately, that means that sleep is the shortchanged leg of the trinity. So I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  first-order ones. Woo! A sign of improvement! Anyway, here. Have ... understand why I'm really excited for the next three years? Speaking of ... Naked Brain, by Dr. Richard Restak. (Fun fact: the first person mentioned

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  barbeques around campus during the first few weeks of school, or from late ... As part of the 2011 Early Action Telethon, today I had the opportunity to talk to some of the prospective members of the Class of 2011

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply ... prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  have played a role in some of these things, it isn't the whole story. I ... took a leap of faith and applied to MIT. I took the first steps, and ... you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of ... events page (linked at the bottom of this post) for when the fly ... marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  is the first of my two Taiwan stickers that were designed by artist ... emotional breakdowns and two whole pints of Ben and Jerry's to finally come to ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  around us. I disagreed, pointing out that the bits of whole peanuts ... upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... time in 8.01 was something the professor taught us in the first few weeks ... be solved," which immediately peaked my interest. This was the kind of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  figured that that's what the whole building was. The point is: I thought ... crucible slipped and fell down the sleeve of my lab coat. I shrieked and started flailing my arm like a maniac. The crucible shot out of my sleeve at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  recall the article on the “The Coddling of the American Mind,” one of many ... . 12:00 → New observation: Harvard Yard reminds me of the East Campus ... first competency-based teacher education program. Instead of regimented

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of-the ... class for mechanical engineers - you learn the basics of using a mill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have ... proper grammar standardized english). It's the time of year (midterms ... on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  's fantastic). The kicker is classes for the rest of the world start first week in March, and ours have been going since the beginning of February, so ... is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... ="aligncenter" width="313"] another perk is the incessant stream of emails from record ... version of history. My [annotation note="Though the station is now operating

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard were never able to tell funny jokes (or give the correct window count of ... something along the lines of “20 HV, which is about as hard as paper, so not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  the heart of LA to visit i.am College Track (IACT) in Boyle Heights. IACT is a local chapter of the national College Track CBO run in ... students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014