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  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  from all over come to MIT to compete to solve insane brain teasers with hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  to campus, and that's exactly what happened. Last night, before the official opening, Anna's decided to throw open its doors and give out their food for free to MIT's students. I wasn't there, but I'm told that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my proposal and it went really well - I think we're going to be able to ... last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  over to the previously mentioned Diesel Cafe, where I read three applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub trivia with Jeff and Chris (Prof. Morse to you). Sadly, we failed to win

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what ... soups of advanced academic programs. We like to see that students have ... opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  -year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out their housing survey and choose where to live on campus. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last ... Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task ... (rip), I'm just going to skip over them... Next, we have bullet ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to combine CMS with Course 6, or to switch into ... math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... often have at this stage; please read through the FAQ to check if your ... applying Early Action. You do not need to complete the Part 2 (essays

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... resummarizing those. i encourage you to read their posts if you haven't already

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men ... around delivering them, to the mortification of the recipient, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011