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  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 I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the ... prepare one another. This is the one I came up with. I'll be posting puzzles created by the entire team every so often for you all to try, and then a

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter anymore because I'm not at my laptop enough. Isn't that astonishing? Here is ... out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  Athletics Department took the initiative to build a new weight room that will ... vwr[/caption] It was super cool to get to lift in the new VWR. In the ... After a seven-ish month renovation, the new Varsity Weight Room is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic "Braveheart" is "rated R for brutal medieval warfare." By the time you read this ... pretty much wishes me all the luck I'm going to need: Spammie, (and Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal ... , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... hustled over to the crowded lecture hall to find no seats, but in all the

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do ... design. this is one of those classes i'm taking for the fun of being with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum, grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that ... applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... life returning to the Infinite. The new pre-frosh, sans pre, are arriving

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... duke, complete with the long coat and feathered cap - I will post some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every ... ’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway window in a high rise or a friend or a tree. Would it be the things I can ... should be, what would I think was the most striking thing? Would it be the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  's death. "I think Jack used his last breath to blow out the pilot light to ... . Jackson, a father figure to generations of young men in the house, died of ... course, if a woman had to leave the room, all the men rose from their seats

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... for the last four years thanks to course 6, and didn't find out about ... (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ides of March Among other things, I now have the power to kill Macbeth.

  

  Day celebrations, but I'd like you to join me in celebrating the birth of the woman from whose womb I was untimely ripped a mere twenty years ago. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM'S MOM!! Love you! I'll be extra careful today.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  , I'm almost positive that the Princeton Hospital is supposed to be ... -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more ... So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  ’re leaving me behind.  The moments where my life crosses yours may be fleeting ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in ... text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a ... , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  the shore of the bay, not the Charles River. I wouldn't do the ... the table next to Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. Sigh ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from ... end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014