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  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long ... more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a ... as needed. The Midyear Report also includes an opportunity for you to ... application. Using the Midyear Report for such updates is preferred over mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  , ran the country and their businesses. This is a must read for anyone who ... thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR podcast Pop Culture ... the early UK release date, and I absolutely loved it. A huge fan of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Magnetism, for which I sought out a little help. The Edgerton Center is quite ... lights. The Edgerton Center operates a machine shop for students in a ... and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  free ($2.40 saved!). Estimates for the crowd attending were at nearly a ... accommodate a crowd for four blocks, they ended up taking up ten blocks of the ... This weekend, I headed down to Washington, DC, for the Rally to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... ????" Admissions blogging is a pretty new thing for me, so please don't be ... in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  Con for our funding needs and received a couple thousand dollars. The Band ... pitched for the hack, including a fortune teller box with a picture of ... bitches?[/caption] For context, this one is a parody of the "Who is MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  guide is provided (the example shown is for a muons experiment- considered ... isotopes. We go into this box a lot for the X-Rays experiment. This is my ... perhaps a history class. I'm leaving some time to do work for the non

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  a meaningful message constructed by a single author. The various descriptive tags for these activities signal the extent of experimentation, as ... thanked Glorianna for her insistence on the central, pervasive, and

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the ... . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the ... . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  company so we braved the elements together often with sleds in tow for a ... —like trading your morning walk to the barn for a crowded hustle to the Kendall ... in for school. It meant the roosters staying put in their coop past

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  am on the first day (yes, at night), MIT students will present a series ... Breakfast & Running, Breakfast Crêpes at a fraternity, Coffee with the ... also the “Hitchhiker's Guide to Hackathons,” “Hungry? Games?” and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , bringing just a few clothes for the week, we brought 8 suitcases in total ... . Everything is ridiculously cheap. For maybe the price of a weeks worth of ... towards Asian cuisine. The cost of a batch of tofu soup for 5 people is less

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  for the first time. The interviews are always scheduled on a weekday ... , and maybe even these blogs, so the decision to apply was not a daunting ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you ... Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It is a personal reflection on the keynote address on "Nerd Epistemology ... judge the impact of a speaker is through the audience reaction, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really ... now a freshman at Princeton and is hosting a show called The Freshman on mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  we get to go to events for free. The CMS department sponsored me and a ... atmosphere of a new film or the wide variety of fan-produced content ranging ... 's a creative energy that drives and develops the "universe" of a media

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the ... the feeling. one. I recently bought a [annotation note="Bluebikes are a service where you can check out bikes for a set period of time. there are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021