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  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... maniacal fervor. By the time I returned to Random at 8:30 PM, puzzling was in ... ice cream parlor in America and I sprinted away into the snowy night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  the pain. Wonderful. In a few minutes, I can barely move both my arms ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . I drifted in and out of uneasy dreams on the way home, but I think ... ... even though I should have learned it perfectly in 8.022. We also sang ... I CAN MAKE THE 6:15 TRAIN." I wasn't completely sure I could make the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  engineering in mit, but dont know how to do that! i am taking SAT in february ... Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... question! I can't speak for everywhere, but I've never known lack of kitchen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  store before you buy it. I've had laptops in my Best Buy shopping cart ... I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want ... -campus and away from a computer so that I couldn't sit in my room refreshing ... finally, two days ago, I took a break from packing (how did I accumulate so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana ... channel I know.  If you like, you can post your favorite video below in the ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  , and I started thinking about Naruto and how he would have reacted in my ... bloggers can do that for you in the comments. For now, I’ll just tell you ... lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Chaine asked, How do you schedule your UROP hours? I've noticed in the ... home once they're in college. I think it will be a little more clear how ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  internet. In other words, you can use up to 2 gigs of web space as an MIT student - this guide tells you a bit more about how you can do that. Now, I ... can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant ... semester i tell myself i am as busy as can be, and then the next semester i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty ... was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set in Boston/Cambridge because I was curious and I read American Panda by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  's, but all too often it can also mean being stuck in lab, not eating.  And ... access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... where you might fit in here. Your MIT experience can be really different

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... -students. Oops. Sorry! I took some screenshots for your benefit, just so you can get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to ... They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4 ... , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  to them often. Most things, however, are ephemeral, because I can ... browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... introduced me to, and which I think about a lot MIT websites (5) "Emerson

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  them grow. but considering how dead I am after dancing in only half the ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that had passed since I was on the team in person, and the new members we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... service in high school marching band). I mean, it just never stops, does it ... ball and I don't really understand how offsides works yet, but I figured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006