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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  convince you that the Hunt, like all puzzlehunts, can be studied and thought ... : the introduction, where you're given the puzzles, and the ending, when ... puzzles leads to what TV Tropes calls Solve the Soup Cans: "you've got to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  - in conjunction with your pre-med course work. And if you get a B ... get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all ... The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  -tool - Best thing you can carry as long as you’re not going to the airport. I ... that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am. Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  STEM stuff (cause you can get some pretty cool results while having fun ... , you can see why we are confused. Below, we describe our thought process ... each week you get assigned a new lab/pset. We approached both classes in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ="aligncenter" width="525"] can you guess where it is[/caption] It's like doing the MIT ... ="335"] it's a me[/caption] You can also see me holding a wand in this ... was pretty funny. A shadowrun is a challenge you beat to get into a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  two weeks, and hope that you get your passport in the mail on time ... homeless in a new country.  When you get your ETH email, forward your ... cancel MIT health insurance because you're getting Swiss health

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  extreme lengths to avoid embarrassing themselves - and you can achieve great ... The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... skill that can be trained and this class is here to show us just how you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , and -- if you’re in a field like mine -- you can do your work from ... departments, and an incredible diversity of people you can talk to about their ... life, because a long baseline helps a person know you well, and they can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  it, and yes you are that scatterbrained and here's how we can work with ... Senior Week events, I can tell I'm getting high off low-oxygen altitude ... MIT. I can't tell you whether it is worth it. Not while knowing that I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus ... you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get ... articulated consonants. Sadly, the MIT dialect becomes imperceptible once you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  get a spot you'll always be bumping into people, which might be a ... the 6th floor, you can try here. actually, just kidding—if there's an ... 'll probably see people you know all the time & get distracted study rooms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  can’t have an idea of where you’re going. Going through traditions and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... fact that no matter where you go, there’s a church or a member of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you ... makes you feel whole again; one where you are learning and growing all the time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... 's okay, you have a 50/50 chance. It's either a yes or a no." Oversimplified ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  -junior year summer internships can be handy, especially if you liked the place ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix ... luminaries… which actually took place last week (you can watch it ... Did you know that President Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s 18th president

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  know you can identify what you like or don't like about a video but can't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving ... Tumblr where people made daily blog posts, in case you're curious about the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  so forth - can we conclude that you are prepared to handle the material at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can ... institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... , you will have built the foundation that a million different futures can ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024