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  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  're getting closer! 10:45am: A quick walk through Lobby 7, soon to be the site ... least for now -- "How to Succeed at the MIT Mystery Hunt by Being Really ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make ... up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... . To get interesting things done, and go interesting places, solely ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local ... their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... attempted to move the holiday earlier in the year to increase the length of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  friend :) Course 8 was next in line to Course 9, so I managed to get a ... the class. I was startled when my row was asked to stand up and get in ... or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... get in. I was almost certain that I would get rejected from MIT, and I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn ... everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a ... this thing in Chris's entry that I'm going to shamelessly plug this pen

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  allows you to get the rest of your life in order first. And, most ... possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at ... you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  - which is how you perform in relation to the rest of your class). Thus, if ... difficult to get As in certain classes. However, in 8.02, you're told from the ... worms are excellent times to think about how everything in biology ties

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark ... in a Baker House lounge. I thought, hey, might as well get that AP Lit

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... at the clock* and I still don't know how to describe how I feel. But oh ... given how hard of a semester it's been, but I still just feel done. I get

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  , because I go to cheerleading practice and throw people around and get muscly ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice ... right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get ... Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Why are you interested in applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... confidence that you have learned “how to think.” With that in mind, enjoy CPW ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in ... everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... to the dining halls in other dorms, so do you cook every meal? Thanks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... thought I would be. Don't get me wrong; it lived up to every bit of its ... very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good ... 't tell you how luxurious it is to wonder what I should be doing right now ... meaning to get around to. Here's one to try if you have a DSLR. If you don

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012