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

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric American English. Multiple observers nowadays report that naturalized…

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to deal with was cleaning my room.…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  It’s been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I’ve been working on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I’ve been writing in my…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• 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?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I’m Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain…

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there’s nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even…

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors either yields blissful…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  Okay, okay, so I’ve totally been slacking off on updates on my travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing, things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here’s the story. Well, actually, here’s the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was an issue with the Doonesbury comic…

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who’s seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I’m talking to my parents or friends. Things…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  If you’ve never seen “Hackers” then you’re depriving yourself and should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger, I’ve written about this before (here ,…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I came across a…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it’s highly unoriginal to come up with supposedly clever sayings…

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  About a month ago, a parent asked me: “What do all these majors switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no sustainingly intriguing enough major at…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I’m Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I’m now a second-year PhD…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I’ve mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton-Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into floors – from Burton 1 to Burton…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn’t like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I’m late but today, TODAY for reasons still…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007