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• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  barbecue to celebrate the 4th of July. This is virtually unjustifiable ... DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural ... economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of ... team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  Storify, or via #MIT2014 on your social media system of choice. I must ... help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  Saturday. I sort of forgot that MIT is hard, as I tend to do, and then after ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  to the committee. We do not expect or require any of these things ... : over the past decade or so, the average number of deferred students later ... we ask that you do is complete the Midyear Report, which will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  bad. You'd have to eat a lot of dollar menu burgers or ramen to beat ... based on card transactions, and even set up alerts to remind you of things ... . Which brings us to.... 6. Credit Cards That's a scary word for a lot of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  completely on basketball, and have extra time to do all of the things I put off ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather ... from freezing my face off, which is nice. I’ve been back at MIT since

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  have a better understanding of how entrepreneurs may get started with their business. Here is a tentative schedule of the event: Tuesday ... entrepreneurs and a VC representative and the audience. The idea is to get all the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -mail to the dorm telling them that barbar is, regrettably, out of paper ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... 't usually work on weekday afternoons: packages come in! And then you have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... him?) She wasn't much better - her words to me consisted of, "Don ... 'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more ... all of the links to wikipedia, that is effort and i am lazy and want to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  savory parts of my memory, I can recall those nights of crying to my mom on ... her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  , you are to bet your pronouns, or the letters of your name, or both. I ... IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is ... may have heard of. Towards the end of the year, we also got a chance to ... writing and think it'd be great to improve my creative writing ability, or

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  love it. It makes me feel like I'm on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" or ... 's way too long for me. Basically, this class is going to involve A LOT of ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  , they try to avoid seeking these out because they "know" which side is ... of what was handed to them. (Note: I'm not saying this is true of all ... understanding, and with knowledge that was handed to you instead of that which you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  to wander down to the Porter Room on Sunday morning and grab some of ... bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see ... give on average $3 is evidence, some argue, for altruism (or non ... of giving up to $10 *or* stealing up to $10 from the other student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... still. :) ... I sort of want to email admissions and ask "So thank you ... mistake; if they really deserved admission. To the members of the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012