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  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... with the black licorice at the bottom of the bag.   mostly 2’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  just shrugged and told myself, "oh well," or not even noticed it at all ... what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  lot of people just don't go to college at all and yet they thrive ... -looking person there. At least I hope so. I don't like being called an old soul

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  shocked everyone was when I signed up at the local gym and began faithfully ... take it at your pace. I'd ideally do yoga after my morning jog as a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  the fact that at its core, this broth definitely tastes [annotation note ... ,41997,41996,42007" /] the line is always long at night. the people are all what the average ... looking at the bowl once i was done with the noodles, feeling how salty and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  four stove burners are available, and no one else is using the sink. At ... , and go to bed in the morning. At the start of the year, two friends came

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  -year academic experience at MIT. The initiative, which is ongoing, has been ... .[/caption] I guess my message is...standardized tests aren't fun, but at least

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the ... makes MIT unique, and it's disappointing (to me, at the very least) how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... about why they’re here, at MIT. To talk about their dreams and aspirations

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  , which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  , East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... survey sent to all the dorm mailing lists asking the residents who feels at ... . We talk about physics at parties, or we use the dance floor we built as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  factor, in which case a meal plan is not advisable, see appendix). At MIT ... that amount, you can get a giant burger with fries at Mr. Bartley ... and cook at least 7 meals outside of that. If your parents are worried

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  -famous fried chicken. At the same time, our incredible brother who is skilled at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  experience with electronics and building stuff. Then his first semester at MIT ... originally in the smaller uneven double, but moved to the bigger one at the end ... . Staring at them, I got the sense of a one-man industry. He said the work

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  at MIT. For those of you who have already decided where you're going to ... MIT culture is like, at least as reflected by the kinds of events that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the ... Inventing the Charles River.   At the time, the land in Cambridge was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the ... onto his knees (which is true) but I still thought it was pretty. At

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  MIT science reporter John Fitch interviewing computer science professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in ... , although that looked at solved a different computing problem.   In the 1960's

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015