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  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  I've been Operating. Death From Above is a HUGE team (our mailing list ... practically non-existent). I realized last year that I'm a lot better at trying ... focusing on doing that. Every day since Friday, I've shown up at noon, sat

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i ... end of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" kicked in, and I was just ... goal is to never skip a song. Alright, I better get some sleep now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  that happened during build, but in the interest of not writing a novel, I ... , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... familiar with me. A week or so later, I got the email that I got the role

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2 ... trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of ... answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... prestigious schools you thought you had a chance of getting into, or ones that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to ... weighted against one. I don't know which envelope you'll find in the mailbox on Monday. But I can tell you that it won't change who you are

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  participate in the program. “Is this the button that opens the door? I really ... - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that ... humming and even doing a little jig in front of the Borderline murals. Even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For ... with friends. The second reason it's a hard question to answer is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... ). I would recommend sending us a note (no more than a page in length) to ... I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  like it, nor do I suspect that I will be going on a similar one anytime soon. I am sitting in a hotel room in Palo Alto that is, perhaps, a ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  , right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is ... ground. I seem to be one of the few people in GEL that’s majoring in a ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  a viable option for myself. What would I even do in a gap year during ... Zoom call is just so much lower than that of a meal together or a weekend ... together three times a week. At first, I wasn't that enthused with the idea

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  excellent; I mean a team that is capable of working together as a unit ... . Being a software engineer in a hardware-heavy project is a unique ... how to design.  That is why to be a good software engineer, you must

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  lines, it's refreshing for others to embrace and impart a message that is ... share in the experience. But now that I think about it, it seems hard to ... people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  social anxiety is nothing). I imagine if today’s me was in that pre ... , view the passerby as a person who is waiting for you to speak to him.” I ... do I have to say no? So, I let her in, asking her to take off her shoes

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  , small bags of stuff that do a lot of work to keep us alive. We are interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... species for use in medicine, agriculture, and history. The hope is that by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013