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  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)...It's one of my favorite times of the year ... . During January, a lot of people do externships, some go to Zambia, some

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  source: http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/yrpts/index.html (fall '09 ... Building 46." This is part of MIT-speak. Here's a primer. Each of MIT ... (sometimes given in Roman numerals). These numbers are in approximate order of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could ... Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  heat index today)  2) Travel. Just returned from a Brown ... and regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT students and millions of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  demonstrations. Sodis uses a method of water disinfection intended for the ... ) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which is in the northeast corner of the nation. Last January's D

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  hundreds of MIT students but also thousands of dedicated puzzlers from all ... [annotation note="literally, I got about eight hours of sleep total that weekend ... associated with[annotation note="tetazoo and putz, two floors of east campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team ... .) courseroad 2.0 was also released recently, and although it's in a bit of a ... for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal ... curriculum for the Class of 2011, and Hanhan explained the current system and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert slackers since time immemorial, an oasis of idle leisure amidst the ... of the American K-12 education system, besides the fostering of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  with violent gesticulations of his index finger. Really, I have no idea ... editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... installed) to download a licensed copy of Eudora. Also available at that software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  [annotation note="Short for Identity, Sort, Index, Solve, a type of puzzle whose ... This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT ... , because the experience of writing a hunt involves so many different things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... -E-Cheese: addictively entertaining in the most kindergartenish, brain-frazzling sense of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  most of them still got made, including with some creative methods for ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing. This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by ... another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005