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  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along with it, the 2007 MIT Mystery Hunt! This years hunt will begin on Friday ... you how much I love mystery hunt, a few old blog entries: Mystery Hunt 1

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  - it's an awesome collection of clarifications & advice for first year MIT students. 3) I've been thinking for awhile that it would be ... , leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get!

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision letters on Friday, March 11, 2005 by regular mail. We know how nerve-wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... I saw it.     Can you see it?     zoom ... -called brass rat, a touchstone of MIT culture with a long and illustrious history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays ... sing This is true--it's not a lore! Oh MIT. You offer us experience

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  there? Believe it or not, there's a lot than meets the eye (stuff about ... 50 (Grape) Vitamin Water. (jk, though I have four empty bottles of it ... years of your academic career. If that's MIT, then AWESOME! If it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  . Enjoy your meal! Appetizer (consider it the house sampler plate): Friday ... assignments, summer project proposals, and chocolate. With a to-do list as long ... workshops and lessons taught me a lot and gave me great ideas on how to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  presentations and readings, not psets, so I didn't post anything from it. 6 ... membrane time constant τm? iv) How much external electrode current would be ... amount of current is turned on at time t = 0 and held at this value, how

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  devastated. It was the common cold, which is, dare I say, the most passive aggressive illness because it's not bad enough that you have reason to complain but it is enough to make you dysfunctional. And as I much as I hate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself ... work, because the truth is, no one cares about how hard it gets and I ... although I could never repay the goodness she has shown me, I know how it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... surplus of amateurs on the road. People, really - it's not that hard. Read

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  would be the year we had no winter. And for a long time, it looked like I ... All around North America, it's been a pretty snowless winter. Some ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... coming in low over New House. It was an awesome sight; definitely not ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full ... is one of the largest public parks in Madrid. According to its tourism ... ", which doesn't sound like the best metaphor to me, but oh well, I guess it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  Hi 2021 Applicants! It’s been two weeks since my first post addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that ... the Applicants who have emailed me, and it contains all the answers to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two weeks ago either, but comparatively speaking, that’s how it feels. Now we

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  just about anywhere as long as it had a heater and an intact roof. We ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like last year! It has been very cold recently, and there has been some snow

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... , it's not surprising that a flyer for a Time-Management seminar caught ... turned in my homework....in the future! Perhaps surprisingly, it had

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  am crying a little bit thinking about how good it was right now:   ... what it's like to be an admissions officer on the road. Tuesday ... have a confession; actually, it's more of a declaration: In-N-Out is not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  sketch of how I remember the clinic to look like. It’s probably inaccurate ... for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to ... the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019