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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 and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story short, Marilee Jones, our Dean of Admissions, misrepresented her ... job at MIT. What started as a mistake in her youth was compounded over

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub ... concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer, condensed version of the Yellow Pages, but I didn't really follow. Jewel did

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily true of all MIT students, but are certainly not true of people anywhere else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... . Next stop, Beard Papa's at Faneuil Hall, home of the “world’s best cream

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... Sadoway. Speaking of Professor Sadoway, there was a nice article about him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  ://tiny.cc/monstermashup 2. Don’t come wearing the sheet. At the first sound of an airhorn, put ... A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time ... letting my hair do it for me. Here’s a photo of me at nerd camp, with one of ... instead of hiding it away because at the end of the day, that’s who I am

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  attend CPW I called one of my friends who is a student at MIT. Although he ... sports) on their websites. There are plenty of tennis courts at MIT for ... students even want to keep any hope at all ?" Yes. The numbers of students we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online at Umeqo. I went with my friend and old roommate Anji after tucking in ... semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of travel. most of the time, pushing is the correct choice the fundamental

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  starting at Issue #30 of TASM. So far, I've really liked it. I can tell that ... , but at the same time, my body feels prepared to handle all of this shit ... COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  job, not a social statement. Among my friends at MIT, announcements of ... —that is theoretically easy to learn. But at the end of the day, I’m less ... “like me” at the lower rungs of a large bank: Learn to swallow your pride

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  plan - a critical look at all of our publications and the web site ... implement next cycle There's more, but I can't think of it all at the moment ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  tossing around a Frisbee in front of Killian Court at dusk. I still remember ... of my first couple of weeks at MIT: Fraternity Rush Fraternity ... Three summers ago, I visited MIT with one of my fellow schoolmates

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  (s) to all of us, or to specific bloggers. After April 19 at 11:59 PM ... . Some of us might come and go, but there will be at least one blogger ... of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard ... --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016