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  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college ... one here for you. At the moment, it is actually snowing in the 02139 ... the weekend. Smiles asked in Matt's last entry, "Hey, just wondering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... . The summer after my freshman year, I lived in Washington DC with Rose

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... TOEFL." You can definitely submit test scores in January for regular

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  a few interviews and lab tours, I was offered a position in the Chen ... -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the ... slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... enjoyed it because most of my friends were in it as well. One of my most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students in their second year of the program. Instead of meeting expectations

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  offering in-person information sessions and tours at this time. We hope to do ... For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... longer there, ask me in the comments about the hidden vault in the secret

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So ... inspired by the Rome Pantheon and incorporated that in their design.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... what the message in the email said. And I wasn’t lying when I thought ... transfer in the spring. I’d have a plethora of extracurriculars. I wouldn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers ... . Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s Star Trek TV series. He grew up in the Boston area, where (in his words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... mom asked, "So, my kid is coming to EC in less than two weeks (EEEEEK) -- and in fact he'll be temped on your hall. He's coming with Mom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  get a sense of what classes are offered in each major. What sounds cool ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... You Graduate List, in case you find yourself on one evening trying to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023