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

  

  me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great ... repressed. Catherine '12 handed me a fistful of gift certificates to the best ... end of the block, I dashed into Toscanini's, nearly knocked over a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... the application season a little, of which I was actually nearly ... " never fails to make me laugh. Just thought I'd share....) Right. Moving

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  students who have asked me about whether this post is still totally accurate ... me fall in love with the private school in the first place. Neither ... 's website, a recent tweet by them assured me that aid would be offered. So

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  everyone riding on the bus, and Divya '13 led nearly half a dozen other ... "event" would be outside the scope of this post, but there Yan presented me ... (game night, Red Sox v. Orioles). Trust me when I say this was among the

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  or CSAIL will give me the tools and the collaborative environment to ... "]CSAIL[/annotation] that left me starry eyed towards what the world of computer science ... lot of sense for me.  While I loved my UROP, the few major related

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  witnessed blasphemy that nearly knocked the wind out of me: [caption id ... there's anything that living in a society has taught me, it's that ... me of home. While waiting to speak only after one gains possession of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  interviews."]mentor coordinator[/annotation] this semester, emailed me back ... about and brag about my students!! The Program The students that gave me ... task at hand. Wednesdays were a lot more hands-off for me, where the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... ’d like to be her (only still me, but also her, but also definitely still me ... . Amazingly, the lab gave me a third of a beautiful office (which so far is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  's stopping me from just going ahead and getting my license?"  As it turns out ... your reserve. I was also curious about how they were going to teach me ... instructors who would be jumping with me and holding on to me during freefall

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in ... rosemary sourdough from Arizmendi.  Recounting this now, some part of me ... friends tried to talk me down from the edge, so to speak. But then I would

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  was a lot smaller. From MIT were me, Brandon W. '24, and Alex H. '26 ... to Pittsburgh. Brandon took an earlier flight, so it was me, Alex, and ... to me how many MIT and Harvard undergrads know a lot about how the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  compete full-time each year since. But it's nearly driven me insane. Older ... let my body rest and heal. I did bring my skates with me, just in case ... years back, to help arrange ice time for me with her coaching team. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  you even know what that means?" she asked me, the condescension blatant ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... principal," my mom muttered under her breath. She turned to me. "You let me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get ... passed on anymore. it makes me think about how fragile oral history is ... february 2019, near the beginning of spring 2019. they had a semester of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  Wax [annotation note=" I know this was a trend two years ago, let me ... to get longer hair but I thought that wouldn’t work for me since I ... heater always fails me. Outside of those times, I was a bit warmer than I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall ... from a thousand miles away. Being so far away makes me feel a little ... that’s near my family. I was accepted into a program at Zhejiang

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I ... of other prominent colleges that purport to be near cities, this Crate ... . Usually when Sam's Mom is watching the show with me, she'll say something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  school either. Can you please tell me your perspective on this whole thing ... . So my question is, if a student from Intel and a student like me who is ... that. In fact, most of my friends at MIT were like me -- no HS research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one ... Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... given me a lot of validation. Representation is important; I often felt

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  from Chinese recipes that my mother sends me when I ask her for help ... Cambridge. On the way back from rehearsal, though, the sunsets still catch me ... no reason, there is simply something floating in my chest that makes me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021