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  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  ridiculously hard. Since noon, I've been working on this one puzzle with pauses to work on other puzzles, but despite my recharging with pizza, carrot ... faster than we can solve them ... bummer. Alright, I'm gonna get started on

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  night with him on Wednesday, watching his little body fight progressively ... fine now, and living through that experience has shown me - first ... Boston on Thanksgiving morning, research changes the world. So to those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  ...all sandboxes for building castles. Put them all together, slap on a deadline, and ... programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration." Don ... a Grand Theft Auto-inspired game set in, well, any setting on Earth

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  make our own decisions regarding the time allocation of our lives. Time ... spend their windfall on travelling abroad, working an externship, or ... not be ready for the September test date. So I blocked off IAP for some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  .) Also, a small person living on your coffee mug can't tell that it's now a ... complaint like, “I was five standard deviations below the mean on the last ... 's not a riddle.” On the other hand, General Relativity has been an eye

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the ... glad I'm not at home, and many other typical college experiences. Today

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  Hispanic Literature. We read a different book each week (Bodas de Sangre, La Nada Cotidiana, La Plaza del Diamante, El Beso de la Mujer Arana, and a ... on, and you can see how this might get annoying. But, the class was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  (Yeah yeah, right now it's Saturday but I wrote this on wednesday ... /finishing/making minimal progress on my 8.03 problem set when I remembered I haven't updated ... :52am. I am really quite ashamed to say I've been working on this since 8

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly ... , commencement volunteers, and anybody living on campus for the summer. We were ... of performances involving people from the wing on the whiteboard. We

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  's Entry: Chris wrote an awesome entry earlier today for admitted students ... ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after ... : Campus Preview Weekend Registration: Please register for CPW on April 2 or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  reading about them online or watching them on the news. I am excited for the ... also my chance to discover and create. On the other end of the spectrum ... really helpful because the stress of future stress worries me more. When

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... on his mailbox that had some sort of complicated mechanism that I no ... news was good. I had gotten in! I experienced extreme shock followed by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Chemistry I)) This class focuses on experimental techniques that allow a ... : -Mark Bear (a Neuroscience professor whose research on synapses in the hippocampus and visual cortex might help scientists to understand mental

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band playing on the upper levels. The crowd exploded into cheers and applauses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course, given that we’re all 2017-era tech school students, our blocks often have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very PNR-core). But! This Thanksgiving, most of us are on campus, so we ... time[/annotation], so today’s blog post is like Maxwell’s equations: it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of these people we ask one quick question as we hustle on in our lives. In ... to hear about the spontaneous adventure you took today. You’re worried

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  one I'd put on my "must do" list. Academics are only one part of an MIT ... :00am-11:00am Panel on Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program. (same as ... who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007