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

  

  I'm finally recovered from the Mystery Hunt... here's the "official synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in Lobby 7. The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight announced the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  French House occupies the top two floors of House 6 (one of the six towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed Human Cancer Genome Project: The proposed Human Cancer Genome Project, as it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation!) Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning with the MIT Glass Lab, and I had an absolutely amazing time. Here's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and ... I get something wrong!) This semester, I was taking the beginner

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the 148th Commencement (mainly through the live feed and Instagram). Last ... were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this ... place at the same time. Wow. If you haven't seen the flashmob video yet ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... "). This landmark book provides profiles of the inner work life of hundreds ... . "Working" had a profound affect on me as I thought about work, and the basic

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at ... work. I have continued in the energy sector as a MITEI and NSF doctoral ... -plant efficiency. The project: I designed a hybrid solar-geothermal power

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  better job eulogizing the Milk than I ever could. If you're a milk ... Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... housing over the summer, trickling in from EC and MacGregor on August 13th

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  . Numerous posters in the Infinite advertised concerts, dinners, and movie viewings. I’d never seen MIT so formal and tame. But that didn’t stifle the MIT hacking culture. (If the term sounds unfamiliar, make sure to check

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple of props from my favorite movies/comics. The first shelf holds the ... comics, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. From there it leads into the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  Last weekend was the Tetazoo fall camping trip, and my first time ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire during the fall semester. What is Tetazoo? Tetazoo is the name of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  (and will be coming back soon! c:) But now for the cute... the other day I saw this installation in the Infinite Corridor. (You can see me awkwardly on the side taking a picture; the camera's hiding my face. harhar

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  Rather than write a real blog entry, I instead urge you to consider the following: An MIT surveyor came upon the gates of Hell, He looked the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well." The devil looked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  work, and life is good. But in the meantime, you probably want to do anything but work, so that is why I propose the following: an MIT Admissions ... actually be able to do it. The game is pretty self-explanatory: you start

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... entirely correct -- the carrot soup was amazing (the person across from me practically gave it a standing ovation) but the dessert was a disappointment

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  about the contest description on Bryan's blog. The four years at MIT are ... credits required for graduation. Being a tech school, the balls representing the engineering classes are three times more valuable than the ones for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of ... Lobby 7 for the Hunt Kickoff: Our team Captain, Keith '02, holds up the sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006