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  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... -around puzzle to find a coin. Mystery Hunt is a big deal at Random Hall. A friend

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are ... time to buy groceries so you haven't had a meal in a week and you've been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in the middle of February. You'd think it would be hard to combine a ... supposed to vote on slogans advertising a party thrown by Hillel, but I do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  part on a solid modeling program, import that file to a CAM program which ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... corner of my heart. There’s a sense of wonder to the idea of an airport

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  '08 for a trip to Water Wizz, a water park on Cape Cod that Adam used to ... and the windows down, and I got to sing a bunch of awesome songs along ... , ate a leisurely lunch, and went into the city to shop a little. It was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  (it takes a long time to compile these, even with the brief answers ... you school does not follow the US school system do you need to hand in a ... to send in a Mid-Year Report. One of MIT's application brochures says I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... 's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . MIT Rocket Team: a student run maker team at MIT dedicated to developing ... important to ask, "How much experience do I need to join Rocket Team?" to ... hardest parts about RT was choosing a subteam to join. There are 7 main

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Ginger Rogers instead of actual clues, (4) a PDF that appeared to be blank, (5) a board game given to all the teams . . . without instructions ... ” computers). Somehow, finding this led you to the grocery produce number for a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  we had more important business to attend to. A chorus of "Kuwait ... might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might ... the world, but it actually looks like a really cool place to give a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the ... the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  and a movie. Everything really has to have a purpose because there are ... panel in the comic serves some purpose. It's important to pick and choose ... class also has us read a variety of different comic books to help us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  will come a time where I won't be there to say something. This happens ... infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch ... don't care." And while I've learned to care a little less more recently

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... changed is the fact that Facebook is now delivered to a much broader ... design and audience, as a social utility intended to facilitate the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their ... to MIT, I never really saw myself as a sorority girl, although I was ... one of the greatest opportunities to help me develop as a woman. My

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  consensual safe sex". They have a lot of information about kinks and how to ... extra to be on a whole other insurance plan, so you have the option to ... active at all, then this is a great thing to go to! I went with a group of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  down to it, the most important thing will be personal experiences. If ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Mary Lou Hazal, A&M-Commerce News Jun 29, 2009 ACCEPTED TO MIT - Cory ... determination and a good sense of humor," he said. "I was very happy to write ... well. They both seem to have a genuine hunger for math and science that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... ’m taking a sailing class! So this morning at 11am I reported to the sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010