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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth ... 30% of women at MIT are affiliated. Throw out everything you've ever

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  living groups at MIT, including some absurd number of fraternities; about ... cheerleaders were talking about them at practice. Isa dressed up like a bunch of ... of student life at MIT?

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  .mit.edu/chocolatiers/www. Check out a video of the MIT chocolatiers in action at www.how2heroes.com ... hundreds of student groups represented at Saturday's Student Activities Fair ... One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... -shelf collection of science fiction” at the MIT Science Fiction Society Library ... also get an experience of a contrasting culture and learning style. At

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport ... to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory ... first place. At this time of year in many other classes, students are cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  at any given moment. Way more than half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... without feeling guilty about it. Make a complete ass of yourself at least

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  incidents at University of Missouri, though arguably MU’s incidents were more ... collaborative. The incidents at MU and Yale brought a lot of other school’s black ... students of color at MIT. I was with one of my friends, Alberto Hernandez ‘17

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped ... . Towards the end of the conversation, he glanced at his watch and gave me one ... presentation. All of them turned to look at me. The terror that Dumbledore could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  client at the end of the day, which was slightly terrifying (since our structure was out of PVC and not designed to support his weight at this point ... . At the end of the day, we won Honorable Mention! We were all surprised

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... welcoming. At the risk of sounding partial, I will also mention that we had a ... stepping out of the haze of classes and exams and taking time to look at the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching ... . Believe it or not, I had to be up at 8:30am ahead of a 9am tour. I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  weren't tears of sadness, or happiness (at first). My eyes were just ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... ’t stop - I spent a long time lying awake at night thinking about many of ... winning author and creative writing professor here at MIT, got accused of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East ... You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017