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MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!
coming soon. I'll let you know that part of today's challenge involved me eating an entire box of cookies and a bag of sun chips. Needless to say, I'm never eating either of those again. If you want to join in and remote -
FAQ / Life and culture
Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?
building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty, alumni, and staff, and raising awareness of their unique experiences ... and personal development of first generation students at MIT. MIT's 17 -
Blog / Extracurriculars
snippets from a semester minus academics, of course
days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance -
FAQ / First-year application
Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?
MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online! -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.
feeling, to think that I will bow out of this universe in under two ... First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the -
Blog / Admissions
Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!
thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... , many of you may be plagued with logistical travel and planning issues -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.
Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…
. There are tons of prep courses offered by Princeton, Kaplan, and even ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I -
Blog / Admissions
4th and Goal – College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones
[The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their -
Blog / About Decisions
Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm
correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before -
Blog / Challenges
Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare
community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking -
Blog / MIT Life
Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.
vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Not Admitted A forum
There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a great number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an -
Blog / MIT Life
A short entry about dorm awesomeness
You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many -
Blog / MIT Life
Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.
of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life-shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns ... , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!
Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from -
Blog / MIT Life
Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.
No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually, I only discovered this little snippet of information yesterday while -
Blog / Admissions
Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.
In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon...