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  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how ... official Hunt website, and they call you to check your answer. As the ... So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out ... up this two most successful disciples in front of him, and led them to ... , and full of vigor, began to climb. However, soon he was defeated by the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  and others easier. I wanted to apply to a range of places so that I ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that ... to me and forced me to challenge any assumptions I might have had about

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the ... community service section of each sorority’s website 3 – Health and Wellness: It’s hard to stay healthy at MIT! Because of this, each of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  've been to the Cape a number of times, so I was confident that we could get ... google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini ... 's excuse to be lazy and fill up a lot of space) Artsy angles

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review: All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... divisible by two, due to the principle of bilateral symmetry to which nature

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  to life? Google images are incredibly useful as an initial starting ... needed. In rehearsals, I create the skeleton of a set and movement to highlight the essence of a scene or interaction. I work with the actors to

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by ... 've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... of attire and companionship, Alex affirms to the unsuspecting viewer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  . Every one of these experiences forced me to consider what it meant to be a ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of ... it did come eventually so here is the story of my quest to ठीके

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  -exhaustive list of things you should remember to do this summer. Hopefully, this ... definitely a possibility. In fact, a lot of people do that to avoid packing ... . Regardless of that, it will be useful to have some money on you before you are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen ... about the intricacies of black holes. It turned out to be less Nobel ... could have been if he wanted to. To be completely honest, most of what I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  websites and wanted to help out, and I was the only woman there out of twenty ... generalization, but the realization was enough to turn me off from these type of ... level. While I’m sure these clubs appeal to a large variety of people

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  , one of the country’s larger news websites. Then it was refusal to renew ... happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that, of course, I didn't get to talk to every single performing group at ... theirs asynchronously by asking auditioners to submit videos of themselves ... cover of a song or audition to be part of one. Each cover lead will work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  . We changed our method of ball deployment from one by one to all at once ... controlled with joysticks). The goal of 6.270 is to teach students about ... the beginning of January and they have three weeks in which to transform

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  limits of our knowledge every day - and that's why I'm so excited to be ... they want to do for the rest of their lives, anyway? As I was saying ... distorted slightly from a spherical shape due to drag forces on the sphere

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said ... confident in their the ability to “function effectively as a member of a team

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... entries here. So that's the motivation behind this entry: to repost some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019