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  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... integrates answers from that round, and solving all meta-puzzles plus a meta ... first phase of hunting. As a sad and unfortunate person, I broke away from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  .[/annotation] I was in lab from [annotation note="a completely unexpected series of ... smart kid from the smart school. At lunch time, I would eat a cold ... Idon'tknowhowI'msupposedtogetintoabioPhDprogramwithaCingeneticsbutIwilltryhahahahhhahhahhh"]out of my league.[/annotation] I am in lab from [annotation note="a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my ... wrong with that! But no, really, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little bit. From: Jordyn To: [email protected] Date: 10/5/2006 1:24 PM Subject

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  daughter of my best friend from high school (I'm from Ohio, okay?) -- it's a ... a carb-rich meal -- new research in the works from Dr. Wurtman, my 9 ... Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... still learned a great deal from that letter. Another time that applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing ... is a Really Good Journal.) But anyway. Since the completion of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  drive around from a basic list of materials.  By the end of lab, I ... also a problem. As Richard Hammond from Top Gear tells us in a recorded ... hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance ... the understanding of dance I've developed from being on a team for a ... I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  good on apples. Although Random Hall is a stone's throw away from ... homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a ... myself swaying a bit from Course 10 and more towards other options. I ... Col·lege ma·jors (noun) A term that invokes pain and, as

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  videos generated by a handful of AI video models from prompts like “The ... video after video for an hour. It was a good break from my usual MIT ... from [annotation note="A big data labeling tech startup that I used to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  are actually a lot of explicitly distinguishable features from this ... reason this topic is even relevant on the mit blogs is because a) from here ... necessary, i end my sentences with a period. This is how I usually write on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he ... dinner, taking walks, shopping, living life. I got a small snack from 7 ... (because I’m still wearing sort of decent clothes from work) like a crazy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my ... from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... students from all four years and a diverse mix of majors including Course 6

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  straight from the bus into the range, which is, unlike ours, housed in a ... also gives you a quantitative measure of distance from center. Eddie ... to take a quick break from studying for physics to finish up this post

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  though I liked the other sorority a bit more/knew it was a better fit, did ... got a bid...and actually joined. I don't regret my decision one bit. I love the sorority a lot and I love the people in it. I often go back and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  present some backstory. In the year 2020 there was a little thing that ... go remote. MIT slapped a fancy rebrand onto CPW, creating CP*, and the ... creating a month of virtual events for admitted students. Having recently

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined ... ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent ... the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  really explored them. I took a road trip with a good friend of mine from ... It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  of chlorine to personal containers as people get their water from a ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009