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  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I ... everybody in the room and called them by their first names or nicknames ... times, all the rooms for the teams, permission to put a device in lobby 7

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  stretcher grace. A special thanks to Vidya '12, who came in when she wasn ... -related education :) Also - a thanks to all of you EA Admits who participated in the ... someone else's stupidity or unforeseeable circumstances; unfortunately

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  to explain herself [in the form of a 200 character apology tweet ... At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job ... homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that ... of a place or event I've been to. I think it's nice how they come with ... floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... […][/annotation] To: frens <3   Oh, take this veil from off my eyes My

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4 ... things you'd find in your typical day to day household. Over the summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  together in front of the curtain. I had the best seat in the house to ... the ingenuity and enthusiasm of the Hunters in the audience rising to ... interviewer) in action to get the most out of this one, but having a interview

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  assignments, or in class. I tried answering it to the best of my abilities. When ... need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I ... and to learn the material in a way that I'd remember it. They also told

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and ... relieved that I wouldn’t have to give up Taekwondo or good chocolate at ... than any other event I went to. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  , and I'm hoping to finish my Q&A post in the next day or two. Until ... . The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization ... over Route 2 on my way in to MIT. On the way I pick up Nance Nance

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  to pummel an innocent robot with a hammer. In return, the Frosh got a ... out into the light of day to finally turn in that one impossible PSet ... just another roof to pass. The Frosh counts the days until departure from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby ... slacklining, so I gather, lies in training your leg to counter-wobble against ... , and you have to throw out an arm or a leg to counterbalance and keep

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

   English, and you can read it on the web here. Or, if you come to MIT, you can ... Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms ... -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  on your planned roadmap. Want to schedule 200 classes in your sophomore ... ’t learn college-level differential equations or quantum mechanics in high ... [/annotation] classes you’d need to take to major in 6-2 and get an MEng

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  self-doubt. In hindsight, it’s easy to recognize that they spoke out of ... time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  wasn't the smartest person in the class -- it was great to have friends ... , informatics, and biology. In each country there's a selection process to try to ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in ... the back of the cabin to claim their spot on the giant 12-person loft in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014