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  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... proficient they were in each of the seven deadly sins. These helped unlock ... , which led them on a goose chase through the halls of MIT and down into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... Fellowship -- concentrate on issues and communities that are of particular ... : science education, women working on women's issues, issues affecting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  would have quit long ago. Anyway, the rest of this post is on a somewhat ... too far. Oh, just read on to find four things you'd never expect to see ... study on our reactor, so we only need to set up this UV spectrophotometer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  's letter to the community on November 9, the day after the election, he wrote ... with them to help navigate the academic, personal and social aspect of ... current undocumented students, and hope that this blog post helps clarify

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  outside of your family who can help you to determine your need for a waiver ... MIT are those who have no compunction about asking for help. If you need ... are some examples on which we take a dim view: I am applying to 25

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  the end than I am to the beginning. As I reflect on the fact that I have ... on psets and office hours and tutoring only to be greeted by C's and D ... allows me to jump around so often, I can't help but feel I've thrown away

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on ... helps to save people's grades a little more. Given the difficulty of my ... convince me to take 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) with him except on listener

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , but if any of his grad students would be willing to help supervise, he will sign off on the papers Leave the meeting thankful and hopeful ... independent study because the grad student seems very willing to help and also

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes ... on the telephone; chess players find a strong move in a single glance ... the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... water gun fight shall focus on two armies, marching and meeting each other ... Sauza ’11 register too. On Friday evening we received out orders via e

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Coast when you know you'll be living there. As my mom drove me from ... rambling about my fixation about the East Coast culture and move on to CPW. :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a ... taught by the Digital Humanities group at MIT that focuses on how to ... have been meaning to get back into it. I plan on taking piano lessons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... super convenient for me to maximize my training time, especially on days ... quick nap, and set off for the airport.     On the flight, I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  college groups (because no one on my team is in an acapella group). To help ... dominoes, one then another then another then us choking on words in front of ... classes that places a great deal of responsibility on its students

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  . My entire project was done on my laptop. I was working in a subfield ... few of them had opportunities in their undergraduate program to focus on computational neuroscience. Very few even had electives which touched on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... cross-registered for two classes: one on Irish folklore, the other a writing seminar with a focus on re-telling fairy tales. Want to cross

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  were off! New Orleans We flew to New Orleans on Saturday evening ... work on it Saturday morning, since Amber and I had gone out into Boston ... grade on it too, so nothing lost here"]done![/annotation] By the time we

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  living on the third floor of the [annotation note="East Campus is a dorm ... normal people stores [...] without the anime girl on it" and are "not just ... .  Tetazoa would often organize large Domino’s orders to save on delivery fees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the ... process what happened on Friday, so for now I'll just show you some pictures ... based on major (Course 8 was Station 19) and asked to report to Johnson

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  wondering what it would be like to live in complete darkness on Earth. On the ... as you might guess it focuses on music spanning from Monteverdi (ca ... French soldier audience was not amused the first time he tried to put it on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014