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  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... studying in France. We've been trying to chat all week, but the 6 hour time ... all time. Go read his archives. Seriously. Friday, 16:55 In response to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could ... like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  will be ecstatic to get their decision; many more will be disappointed ... 's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  graduate school, loved getting to know how to navigate the city streets with ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still ... were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still ... were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as ... 're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic Chemistry, we reviewed how to solve 2n + 4 = 15. 10.490: Integrated Chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  Sloan lab that I stumbled upon during a desperate mid-April I need-to-get ... to help... Eventually, I get back to work. I have to fill out a weekly ... dorm's role in COVID-19 developments; e.g. how the dorm will be utilized

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get ... ignoring my noise complaint more in any way? Thanks :( sorry to be whiny

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  ’t get in trouble.” “No Mom, we did not get in trouble.” There was the ... their spelling exam.” “In that case, how were your—“ In the twins’ room ... -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... ... How could she know what an ounce of milk was supposed to look?   ... enough to describe the excruciating pain that she felt in her heart

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  stopped to get some of the best hot chocolate I have ever had in my life ... Station that we were literally standing in line to get to the top of the ... my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be ... required. Enrollment limited with preference given to students in the Media

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some point—had to find a way to cook the ramen in the absence of kettles. We ... bit of ramen in those extended palms, a mother forced to feed children

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I ... class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... situations are, how each group has such a strong and rich culture to it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  'm just getting a stick figure to "walk", but we in the research world like ... allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... calligraphy class where you get to learn different strokes, characters and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023