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  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  words I am allowed to use right now!! 🫠) first, a bit about type 2 fun I ... "[annotation note="shockingly, the first time I have been able to use real ... to finish first[/annotation]. In fact, if a team has made the Big Game

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ="aligncenter" width="412"] sooooo locked in[/caption] jebby was the first to finish ... get second place. i also had to do a lot of revising after my first ... , being the first person to hit 500 words. But, winning came with a cost. I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  a list is the first step to optimization? Right? But sometimes things ... I am blessed and fortunate enough to have shots in the first place ... yet here I am, struggling to remember just exactly where I was 2 years

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  done with fresh starts. When I first came to MIT, I thought I wanted ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  first semester senior who just decided to change her major around, this ... look forward to first semester senior year with equal parts excitement ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... forward to reading my first-ever complete(ish) novel in Chinese (starting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  idea to simply build the Green Building on 'stilts' so that the first ... seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  to read and pronounce Middle English, writing pieces on radio astronomy for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace Observatory to look through telescopes and sketch constellations, learning about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out their housing survey and choose where to live on campus. This guide

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... starting over. No delays to tomorrow, next week, or next month. No more "I ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a ... it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us additional information when they apply to MIT. (Other options include Music

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... deep applicant pool, combined with a commitment to maintaining equity ... applicants were admitted. An additional 3,893 applicants were deferred to

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my proposal and it went really well - I think we're going to be able to ... last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career ... Fair I proudly declared to all potential employers that I’m “planning to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... useful?) first sunrise in Baltimore, Saturday morning, from an airplane ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview for us! Listen to the full interview here: I hoped you enjoyed me fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  to take the next bus with Gloria who also didn’t make it with the first ... weekend to see the latest updates!). Background Slack Messages Earlier ... begin. (Also deep thanks to Kano for the planning and brilliant execution

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023