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  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... 't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because

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

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... the Facebook Group & Page: Facebook is a great place to meet your ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  is tricky, because thin metal melts much faster, and it's easy to burn ... made it difficult to solidify any part of the project.  I didn’t want ... option, however it is the one that I chose. Next time, I will CAD the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... to put names and faces together, and it was really cool that all the ... here is much bigger than a single campus. When you come to MIT you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  predictable.[/annotation] One reason to believe it might not be is that there ... it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... music, although it's rather dated. I draw on Tagalog to show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... 't know: that the executive at ABC who greenlighted to show is an MIT alumna ... opportunity. For what it's worth, none of the "scholars" applied to MIT. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  whatever it is, this too shall pass. Above all else, be kind to yourself and others. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote: Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in ... to Jenny's playlist and let it help you escape the samsara of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  that it's okay to be average (academically) is something that's hard to ... honest, this is Sparta MIT. It's physically exhausting to get A's on every ... in everything I did. Then, I came to MIT.  Here, everyone is the best

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  'm forced to spend it in a way that I feel is meaningful. This includes ... , all my friends started posting, and it was honestly so nice to see all ... ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  . But I write with a heart that is also full of anguish – because it is ... . At this moment, let’s do what we can. I believe a place to begin is by ... us treasure and care for that community – and let us work to make it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... time bomb counting down to decisions) is very engaging. Social ... . Swimming is fun and this is the perfect time to learn how to or to sharpen

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  even more startled to hear "DON'T GO THERE. IT IS TOO DANGEROUS. TAKE A ... ) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... we were impatient to explore Quito's Old Town. Quito is the capital of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it ... , then compete to see who could make the most cuts in the paper before it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... 't actually had the opportunity to hear it, but I suppose I'll go check it out. With regards to Beethoven, his late stuff is pretty awesome (with some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  tends to confuse these groups of people is the housing system, and how it ... questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... is going to be living next year when their neighbors' child who is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  “settling down”, so to speak, which is sometimes inevitable with time spent in ... event gave Emmanuel some insight. Most importantly, it led to a key realization, which is easy to say but difficult to really believe: that a single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... with finding what you need when you need it. Images can be difficult to format, but are usually necessary. My first approach is to comb through

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... connect it to people’s Twitter accounts because so few people can actually ... submitted to the contest “The idea of the set is to celebrate women in NASA

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  day. It almost seems silly, but each challenge is supposed to make us ... it is - but you have to understand that all of these assignments are ... Wednesday? 20.020 is pretty laid-back compared to my other classes, which is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008