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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)

  

  -pieces can be found in the world that make you have to change your answers and ... can see them if you hold your computer-pointing thing over any words ... ? first, what are the game-problems in the Big Game like? Do you like fun

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

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you ... useless trivia, then yes, you can. I go nuts over this site. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  or daughter can only match that magic profile, he or she is in for sure ... Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... the many parents out there. It would be great to "meet" you! The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  personal though sometimes hints of my life find their way in. And if the past ... ’m still unclear about my path ahead, I have peace in my confidence that I can and will figure it out. Despite my fears of losing community, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  television, you can tune in too. Here is that commercial: ... super well with Moogega and Ivan. What did you build in the EE lab? I ... in general was my favorite thing. How many people can say that they

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... are announced in person on Saturday evening. As you can see, the ... one. In four years, you will be in a completely different situation. As

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  ? Your interviewer will live/work nearby, so you'll interview in your ... , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  try. I love you all, and best wishes in the future! ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are at MIT (2010s, bloggers, etc), you know where to find me, and my door

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing ... 're in, such that whenever you feel you could slip or fall on your back ... you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  , so you can see what kinds of really fantastic and interesting and great people you will be surrounded by and also see what these people are doing ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  version of Nutella: In sum: there are a lot of things you can do at MIT ... 's taught as a co-curricular class (21M.460) you can take at any point during ... This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  Blackhawk revs up for takeoff, you can feel the power surge through you. It ... the aircraft. It can really feel like you are flying. We came up over ... [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do, and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and ... day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to ... major in those things if I wanted to? (Answer: yes. Oh, past me, you didn ... to professors before you apply. (Can you imagine if you did? Professors

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’re certified in the IAP class, you can show up for open forge whenever you like ... pursuing personal projects. You can come in and make hooks and leaves ad ... smells like coal dust and smoke, and during open forge you can hear the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid ... with onions, poured in two cans of tomatoes, dumped in half a bottle of ... can't find them in Germany). The general consensus was that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and ... always going in the wrong direction no matter how hard you try. When I ... where anyone can become anyone. Where you can be who you want to be, if

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  blog would never end! More casually, you can always find me in the ... "]Z[/annotation]lifting or hooping for my intramural team. You can also find me chillin’ in the ... senior majoring in courses 10 and 18. If you aren’t familiar with your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  Manufacturing guru), is among those selected for the job. You can read more at ... PGA." Well apparently that's exactly what President Obama had in mind ... assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2 ... the Archimedes Death Ray episode, done in conjunction with students from ... housemate and some others starred in "Crop Circles: Mystery in the Fields

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006