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  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only ... teams found the coin within a few hours of starting the hunt, they ... location of the coin: the Alumni Pool! So, we raced over to the Alumni Pool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  were doing astronomy research for the summer. His face lit up, in the way that anyone's should when you mention astronomy. "What stars are you ... guy is very into physics and astronomy. He asked me all about how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... why I am doing astronomy research this summer. That semester, I took ... information, but now I'm doing an REU with the National Radio Astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. My research question is “how did the ... of stars and watch the process unfold. I decided to try out astronomy ... Pasadena in order to begin pursuing my astronomy PhD at Caltech. When I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... doing research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Suddenly, here ... of astronomy research programs, and found myself facing a decision: a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  's gender neutral term we coined for non-men."]qorls[/annotation] of DPhi ... back from applying to the ICL exchange program is the sheer length of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  scheme of things. We started in the modern era of astronomy, and I ... equal amount. This drew a very different crowd from my astronomy classes ... a long time. Essentially, one can do astronomy at every wavelength of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for ... perfect fit. An exchange through Course 2 had been in place for the past few ... exchange. I had less than a week to decide. Indeed, I was incredibly excited

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  From EC to Trinity Hall Last year First East was graced with a wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... the help of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME). I was intrigued, not only

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  olive. Common Chilean idioms, like “Qué fome” and “¿Cachai?”, slang that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  slang, hip-hop, and rapid prototyping. And Jeju Island itself isn't too

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  . * (Internet slang, pejorative) A beginner, someone lacking skill, or someone who

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  though (there's so much slang here that it could be considered it's own

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  worked their way into the lexicon of MIT slang. So, when someone asks me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  and I give you my thoughts as a parent. There is only one coin. There are many sides to the coin, but there is only one coin. And you can flip

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  didn't assign credit when he described results from astronomy research. A ... 've never felt any antagonism from the professional astronomy community, and I ... on the show, he made sure to describe astronomy using sexually

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  radio astronomy. There are some repeat visitors who have learned my name ... , and loves physics and astronomy; he told me all about black holes ... science, and not just astronomy. After we marveled that all of the elements

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  for Undergraduates) SENIOR FALL 8.033 (Relativity) 8.287 (Astronomy Lab ... in Astronomy. This involves taking the astronomy lab class senior fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  dinosaurs - whoops), Astronomy, Cryptology, and Game Theory. *Really. Ask ... on topics in physics, astronomy, calculus, and programming (Python). We ... -acquired physics/astronomy/calculus/programming skills to calculate its orbit. That

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021