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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in-jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... MIT sororities since most are majority white and Asian. In the middle is ... at her church who were. She started to learn more about D9s in middle

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  could, in principle, buy a rack, but the pandemic price-gouging was likely ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , 1994. It had already expired, and belonged in the trashcan, but somehow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for your computer, once you buy your computer: A padded laptop bag with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  theory”-esque challenges run by anonymous gamemasters and $749 in prizes ... "]he didn’t believe me[/annotation] and then found my number in his contacts. I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in Ethiopia like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network were dubbed in Arabic because ... Diaries💀💀 but I digress"]show.[/annotation]   Meanwhile, sometime in June, my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... will weigh in on it. Assuming you've made it that far, the senior staff ... correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... Points full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions brochures—picturesque skylines, happy smiling students in various spots around

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... prone to ants. 9:43 AM: Finding tupperware to put sugar in. 9:45 AM

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020