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  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four ... . I can tell you that the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  schedule. Why: In short, I had a terrible sleep schedule in the fall. To be ... did in 2023: Went on a senior trip to New York with friends ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... …but it was still funny to see all of the other people in the room squirm a ... 21M.A12 Does. Good luck to all you EA applicants! I was in your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  and listening to the same music in the same spot almost a decade ago ... I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... clothing that reflected the weather to a five-person dress that turned into a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all ... to how we structured each rep. After each strenuous climb, we spent a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... summaries, but I'll leave a link to an article about each piece. I'll also

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... denizens gathered in the lounge to select the day’s film. “Can we watch a ... found a calling in rap. Soon the first three tracks of our (yet unreleased

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... shop in the A.M. after finding out about Justin.TV's livestreaming app ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post ... window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  a non-stop grind to get everything finished in time for competition ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... future competitions and applications! Whether or not we compete in a sub

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to ... Wednesday: “Chariot racing’ = pushing someone in a shopping cart down the ... As you may know, MIT has a strong and vibrant Greek community, made

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can ... )... THROWBACK!   “Throwback to what?” you might ask.  Well the answer is a simple ... !  Here’s a preview to some of the McCormick events (along with their

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  EST To: baxterthieves Cc: burton1 We have the cake, as requested, in ... back home, and I would like to thank everyone who helped in the effort to ... From: rich Subject: LOST CAT Date: January 22, 2008 1:22:26 AM EST To

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  a time?? -Alison"] All right, story time.[/annotation] I was hired to work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to help find the [annotation note="Wow, imagine being a blogger, couldn’t be

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... form. If you are interested in our music community, consider sending in a ... year, respect their time! Try to get your application components to us in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  , craving to do something, having nothing satisfying. A dullness in the in ... satisfying. A dullness in the in-betweens that seem to take up forever. *** I ... how tempted I am to destroy everything in order to find out.

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026