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  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... the storyline, the adventures we had, our victories and defeats, and ... little glimpse into the average Mystery Hunt puzzle solving session and a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  creates perfect little dams. And then the rain is free to collect everywhere ... . Except that it's a little bit warmer. And a lot more humid. Not nearly as ... complaining. "I hate the winter. And layers. And bulky winter coats. And static

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Groundhog Day LinkedIn Fat free foods Nespresso The terms “touch base ... minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh, of course she ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  got and you could go to college for free, no room, board, meals, or ... Lexington, get free steaks and free-2-of-16 recently purchased cameras, then ... CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them ... satisfaction and 2) way more scratch paper than you'll ever need. I always get ... a single word), Sudoku, and so many more. Sometimes I even have two at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on ... consisted of Science Olympiad and journalism. Like, in terms of journalism, I ... technicals and a CI-H, a writing intensive humanities class. It's a perfectly

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

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for ... Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  this period (and for the most part, almost completely preserved in online ... for the last three years running >____>). And this feeling has ... be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the Tech ... At CES, my friends and I went to some free concerts by Lil Jon

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  Calc. Give me a math problem disguised in the real world, and I ... extracting the real part," or "Find the real and imaginary part, and the ... $2 for kids, $5 for adults, and free for MIT ID card holders. Now here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  interesting flavors including Olive Oil and Earl Grey Tea, and from this earlier ... , you can walk down Newbury Street and pass JP Licks, Emack and Bolio's, and Ben & Jerry's. Personally, for ice cream, I'm all about the JP

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like: we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value and support by organizing into small squads of people that hang out a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  .009 (Fundamentals of Programming), and 18.701 (Algebra I), but the free variables are ... me that I was pulling a “freshman spring” and taking too many classes ... brain can successfully absorb, and learned what it was like to have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... . Capturing the avatar is the only way that Zuko, who has been disgraced and banished from his family and his homeland, will be welcomed back as the

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its students. And if you knew how expensive this software was you'd be relieved ... time, always amidst great fanfare and in every creative, apocalyptic way

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  these terms, CNC stands for Computer Numeric Control, and it was basically ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... and Productivity (LMP). This is another lab run by Course 2 (the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  , and Friday afternoons and evenings are free. My Tuesdays are hectic. My ... . This frees me to spend Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in lab, and blog ... four different outfits before deciding which combination of shorts and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  not rushing, to get free food and enjoy the actually really fun events ... look like it was my real face. And in that moment, looking in the mirror ... path knowing that the cost of it would be me. And in coming to terms with

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  the door and the simple statement "Your alarm has been going off for over an hour." "Okay." said I, shut the door, rectified the problem, and ... wonderfully noisy dream about a Course 10 '07 and a Course 10 '08 involved in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele ... morning, again, and lab work in the afternoon. “Work” is a generous term, as ... writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021