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  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Regardless of your admissions decision, you will continue to be the good ... , the complete text of Atlas Shrugged, which ended up winning the hunt ... like puzzles solve puzzles all weekend long. Some of the puzzles are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... his research “has centered on the application of theoretical particle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It ... ask Fodor? Has anybody ever read any of Fodor's stuff?) The way I see ... . It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... open this door you will likely receive a shock to the palm of your hand

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the ... anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad ... complexity of patterns and the neck-breaking speed that some people crocheted

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them ... Airbnb in the suburbs of Phoenix and literally had no other books left ... , and the son ventures in to find traces of his father. His mother knows

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because of the restriction on serving open food at club events, I've eaten an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  .704 Continued study of the language, literature, and culture of Spanish ... . The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  new people and hang out with old friends, out of the fear that they won ... comeback in all of my classes in the latter half of the semester. Even then ... season. The deconstruction of what I once thought was right doesn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... means we also have the fewest number of holidays this semester, clocking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... many bruises, and I'm not even kidding. One of the coolest things we ... flip in the air instead of a twist.   Wrote two essays. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  ...relax, unwind - get ready for the hustle and bustle of fall 2008. It's been an ... -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... favorite time of year, and even though I'm not the Macgregor rush chair this ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... better already. It’s largely the lyrics, but it’s also the vehicle of the ... time, she’s been one of my role models. The why is a bit tricky to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  —if you look beyond the thing you’re waiting for—it can also be full of ... you want more of the thingYou just got a taste of ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  Yes, I'm in the American Southwest... Yesterday, I had ice cream with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... and cold afternoon but the feeling of liberation from classwork kept the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009