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  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... 12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  taking the bus down even further south to visit my dad in Woodstock, Georgia. It's very strange. The first few times I went back to a parental ... go to a place like MIT, and I promise you, you not only change but you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... the Euro. This spring, the class is heading to Amsterdam, and I think I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  harnesses and had to wear helmets. I didn't manage to get a good picture of a rider in motion, but I did get a picture of this rider who was about to start his/her ride. Not every attraction has to be a ride. We also had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  . Basically 2.001 teaches you the stuff you need to know to figure out that ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6 ... by itself, but it becomes a lot cooler when set next to the "I forgot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade ... PhD programs, you're going to be doing research and so being prepared

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  THINGS THAT SCARE YOU: - Other people dying - My debt-to-income ratio ... THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS: - Prioritizing sleep ... : - Cooking - Gardening - Playing music THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  , and I almost forgot the best part. Today I was talking to my supervisor, Juergen, about nice places to go in Europe. Juergen said that his absolute favorite is Rome, and that one time he went to Rome and saw the Pope walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It ... "Electricity and Magnetism for Masochists") had an official response to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... -of-consciousness prose and doing chemical kinetics homework that it will have to wait until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra-curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  curve. This curve will be what Gabe uses to decide whether he should get ... works. It takes another three pages to derive the social demand curve ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... ," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never considered -- teaching physics at a high school level. That would allow me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... the opportunity to work closely with Tan Dun and also with Guillermo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse ... pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and infects the colon of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... student has to take. The strongest examples of problem set classes are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022