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• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this ... ).  Directed questions that can be answered relatively briefly are best; those questions with answers that can be found easily on the website or that require

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  Soon I'll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now ... , this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The ... -P-E-E-D O-V L-I-G-H-T" Pete: "Hello, I'd like to speak to Agent Chitty Chitty

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... was the point. Not because I'm trying to show off - I read most of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  find them. There's power in numbers, and there's a lot of good left to be ... physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the ... Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, Chris Peterson summoned me back from my alumna grave to apply my treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... influenced by action-spy-thriller-heist-explosion movies. Tim the Beaver flips

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was ... Simmons folk, new kids on the block. Time to write the next chapter, to be ... 's Thursday the 18th, so I'm going to take the time to submerge myself into

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of ... unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on ... , a 2003 book on hacking published by The MIT Press. Little is known

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice cream. I'm not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by ... : $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  week. The rules are simple, what I post needs to be something that you can also enjoy (called the Zaxxon Rule) and the post shan't be too long. Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... I really want to help undermine the value of the physical public

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so ... a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond ... 's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  's skull was going to get smashed in by a cow hoof) but two of the teams were ... coaxing, I managed to wobble (screeching) down the sidewalk to a gyro cafe and back. Two days later, I managed to transport myself down a riverside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water ... to the onion mixture. And then I served it with a little sour cream on top. It brought me closer to God. Thanks, Ina. In an interesting bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  ’m three weeks into my third semester at MIT. I’m relieved to be dry; at the same time, I’m happy to be hosed again. I’m mildly stressed, mildly ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  . Summer program mentors and job supervisors can also be great choices to ... version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... take advantage of their less constrained educational environment to take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement, you have to take two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  River. This excursion was arranged by a grad student (who happened to work ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... Dragon Boat team and were introduced to the sport. We spent some time on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  apartments and such. i dunno, back in the philippines being able to pay your ... pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  . There are many opportunities I will never be able to explore. There are so ... 't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... required. I'm probably going to take AI. Then I head to Abstract Algebra (18

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021