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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  ASE, I eat lunch, I go to another orientation event or go do a REX event ... something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  life and things, but I still need to get around to doing a last couple ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="600"] a 61" tv? do they still have that? from ... hack,[/annotation] it must be CPW. Not only do a thousand prefrosh get to ... wouldn't be too bad if I didn't get a CPW in 2019, because I'd be doing CPW

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  was doing that again my senior year. Then I just gave a funny quote ... , but once upon a time humans did battle with dragons. Right now I’m battling a 5.60 (thermodynamics) p-set. The deceptively fluffy roadslush

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... confusion as a feeling that comes in many different flavors. Some are sweet ... out of my comfort zone. Navigating unknown territory – be it a school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  questions, like they were doing a study of this dish. It warmed my heart to ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... their conference, NEWMAC! NEWMAC is a conference including Babson, Clark ... year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you play. Play a tournament for bragging rights, or make a fool of yourself ... RHOP Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  hotel in Okinawa, Japan. (My school was a DoD school, also in Japan, so ... , definitely not my smartest idea. tl;dr do not try at home kidz. A.M. ‘19   My ... students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  't have to spend brain power thinking about it. This includes a to-do list ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... Random Hall friend Devin. It doesn’t have frills, like a dishwasher or a garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... miss their target, because they do not recognize where disappointment ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I ... Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... that what you choose is a lot less important than that you are confident

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... their waxy exterior a different emotion: boredom, support, nervousness

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (then) recently released new concept for the Iron Man comic series, a 15 ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017