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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit ... with the tortilla on the side could last me for a solid two meals. After

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This semester is going to be class heavy because I'm doubling up on HASS classes to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on ... document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  awarded for "confirming, by experiment, that people who think they are drunk ... awarded for "discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make ... a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... friends wearing silly hats. Go on Nerf fights. Spend hours wandering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY, and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  months for me in a closet on campus; now it would wait another six months ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... do we mean by this? Everyone here was admitted based on the same ... More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... ’t, you smear the colonies on the cloth and the petri dishes into their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... week’s lunar phenomenon on the Charles. The Super Blood Moon Eclipse (as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  students and will keep them on track for graduation.” After the first year ... selected for CUP, we applied for the positions and were interviewed by ... apply for CUP after serving on the Subcommittee for the HASS (Humanities

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the ... knowledge of bay area geography was made flimsier by the fact that we were on ... direction anyway. not through stubbornly facing the wind head-on, but by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.   If you end up feeling limited by your circumstances, get creative

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who ... . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on particularly weird or ironic evolutionary imperatives, or by producing really

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  it. So, that's all, folks: stay tuned for my next post, on How to Sue ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011