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  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define. It’s like a Sudoku or a crossword, but you have to figure out the rules

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... float up to the top. "Huh," I said. "That's weird." And proceeded to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... "]sleep,[/annotation] but lots of fun.   Allow me to explain from the beginning, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  -paced; I could tell myself when was good to cram vocabulary cards and ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... were being kicked out of our dorms. Due to this, I was under the impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  rooms. most public places are shut down, so there's nowhere to go anyway ... amounts of time just so you have to find fewer things to occupy yourself ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... -Conner?"]housing.[/annotation] It was really nice to see that the professor cares about (a) making the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In between all of this, it's begun to hit me that I am now officially more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to ... musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and ... 'm referencing this interview with Kanye West by BigBoyTV. In response to Big Boy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and ... mentor, steven, shows me to my desk and helps me set up my computer ... seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  -ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6 ... : it's the mid-semester bubble rearing its ugly head. i want to succumb into complacency but i have to finish these things swirling in my head so

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... though. I was actually excited! I was initially going to write a post about "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  playlist, and we did. Here it is - listen to it while you read this post! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has ... my life before coming to college and pursuing my interests in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and ... , we've kept them the same as the last few years, to wit: We know you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students ... you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive (and even

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students ... you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive (and even

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  Monday, my first semester here is abruptly coming to an end. I have ... challenge! On the most exciting note to me, I have spent the past three ... from just one to now having two full shelves! So, initially, when my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017