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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with ... pretty much the biggest loser); they're the kind of family who'll be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... volume of the comics The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was painted by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  -quarters classes (45 credits), which is the smallest number of credits that I have ... , fantasizing about a place far away known as MIT, and the kind of things that I ... adventure. Now, I am sitting in front of the wooden desk in the room that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program ... of the world"...' and 'Describe the world you come from'), an optional

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... under the nose of the administration while quite possibly breaking dozens ... you're walking through campus and you see something a little out of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... , which is basically the cause of those past two paragraphs of digression

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was ... with the family of one of my students, and they were warm and welcoming

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... of mutations in the shibire gene in drosophila – when you heat them up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... the fine & performing arts in high school, over 60% of accepted

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the ... blackboard skills beyond reproach. One of the most popular lecturers in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... games as my preferred form of media, but I still enjoy the thrill of being ... majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011