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• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft, though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  entirely sure I would have even been aware they won the World Series. Because ... 't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually ... classes now, too, since I promised I would at some point, and at this rate

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  -person interview would be difficult. Of course, I prefer doing in-person interviews ... Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  -thing series that Petey started in the blogger days of yore. I didn’t really have a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what ... I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  interesting you would like to say about yourself/where you live/what's in the ... know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters ... pretty majestic! (she's the girl in the picture) Which got me thinking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last meal in the Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not ... 's Excellent Adventure, Looper, Safety Not Guaranteed, Midnight in Paris. But I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the ... I have known for some time that my approach to things can be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  absolutely the right decision. I took three classes in my major this last ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  that if we got snowed in then they would send a helicopter =) Off we went ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  more people in a day than I would in a week of high school, I felt ... 1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  in the class, has been pretty chill so far. I’m sure I’ll be eating my ... about in an upcoming post. I got cooked to death on my last midterm but it ... semester, so I doubled up this semester in order to get on track to complete

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning ... voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  things i've been doing in the past week. it's truly felt breathless. i ... what things were like back in the day, the next night i'm in a hallway ... and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to ... object lesson in what not to do. As I've said before, I had decided to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  up, I would be awake. I was, and I showed up in Killian in the pitch ... If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... . With the first dome hack in three years, why would it just be a banner

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of ... in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011