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

  

  slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great ... sustenance of a third-grader who ate nothing but lunch and slept off the sleep

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  the Charles River, Next House offers stunning views of the riverfront ... beautiful courtyard over which many of the rooms look. Next House offers a ... I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I ... say the L-word on this blog?), I won't deny that some small part of me ... came here. When I accepted the offer to join Phi Kappa Sigma, I knew that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of ... screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... as one of the three CPW Chairs of East Campus a while back (maybe in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct pleasure of having three UROPs during my time as an undergrad here. The first

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I ... the hole as a result of our EFC, but my entire family has had to make ... spending money on top of the money they were already paying for school. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200 ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... isn't cheap, but neither is any kind of food in Boston (the price of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals ... overwhelmed with the staff's knowledge of individual cases and their passion and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap was the sofa in front of the TV. A side effect of television was the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  in a dorm because of the different community that it offers from my ... skimmed over and thus it makes the process of Rush seem arbitrary and random ... happen each day, and each member of the fraternity try to go out and meet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will ... for the admissions officers, that’s for sure... Of course, in 1918

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... recognition, so that’s where Sarah and Marie learned a lot of the basics of writing prompts and designing this kind of system. The first time they

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005