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  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my ... this case, a community around a practice that is typically solitary ... best place for me is a jack of all trades, dabbling in meche and in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  ? A: INSPIRE is the first and only national high school competition that ... (2015), we awarded over $48,000 in prizes. Q: So if a student is interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  , never seriously be premed, never join a sorority (much less one that would ... never actually find a pair of skinny jeans that fit. Oh, how things change ... come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving ... alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me ... perfect a New England winter day as you can get. Look how blue the sky

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  slow-cooking ribs at least once a week 2) My Google search history is ... being a student at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  what happened next, but I think these snippets do a much better job than ... should build a new version of this which is better in the sense that it ... , saves a lot of time.    1:32 am - “How can you be dumb when you are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons ... . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should ... , or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you ... life at MIT is a perspective only you can provide, so you should feel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Vagina Monologues is a collection of monologues and short group pieces ... considered taboo, the play is meant as a tool for female empowerment ... difficult loss, but this story is a positive spin on that. After submitting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A formula is written on the board, you think about it, figure out how it was ... taking us around the machine shop and giving a boring explanation on how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  actually is rather good, I just thought I'd share a few thoughts with you ... over by a bus?) #29 - Hey, how about when they shut down the Harvard ... A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  the HASS requirements because there is a 93% chance that I will say something that is completely imaginary, spurring a horde of upperclassmen blog ... . Anyway, the main point is that (1) thinking too much about the HASS

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  generally friendly. The city as a whole (as well as the Amazon campus) is very ... . Since I could probably talk for far too long about how great Seattle is ... 've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  learn how to design a research project and see it through, and that is ... is a very big aspect of bioengineering programs these days, so I'm safe ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  cooker)[/caption] Our pressure cooker!!! It is a pressure cooker and air ... telling Raymond how our home felt a lot like those tiny house living shows ... 's engineering/PM minds to try and figure out how to fit as many features of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  that facial hair is my punishment for some terrible transgression in a ... Snively was the first one I remembered because his name is funny. This past ... station the for Course 10B, which is chemical and biological engineering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year ... blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand what MIT is like.   Admissions officers can write about holistic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  him a small red bag containing what I assume is candy, said, “Happy ... inside of the cell. A Type II protein is the reverse: the carboxyl group ... how amazing our a capella groups are. Every song they cover sounds

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so ... is a vinyl dance floor that is VERY [annotation note="you have to make ... in a row is almost impossible unless you figure out where and when you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022