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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost ... since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... came up with all sorts of bad ideas that pushed our stomachs, hearts, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  handle on what they want, but it is clearly a big part of social and ... real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  any number of other qualities and characteristics. While one's race can ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  a booth on one of these tables and advertise to passersby in between ... facilitating any kind of event. The first time was when Hahn and I got a bunch of ... hours or so before Splash, and several hours on the day-of, which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  just carry on and pretend like this never happened? Meet you outside by ... every aspect of my life, MIT related or not, and it's a tradition that I ... of different ways over the past eight years and I feel so lucky to have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  from all the times I fell on my poor, poor bottom, and I'm pretty sure ... back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the ... around the room and use the clues written on the walls, but instead of ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... Admissions and am starting school again, more on that later.) This is just ... on GPA and extracurriculars than research experience (but it’s the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  do, go ahead and do it! One of the applicants I met on my Harvard ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... Chinese immigrants my freshman year of college, and since then I have worked

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  of the class (as measured by the weekly hours on Firehose) and the ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  Shakespeare. I picked the envelope off the ground, and re-read the name on the ... was a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Dumbledore: Fancy ... I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... ="water-ballooned, anyone?"]any other painful form of water you can think of ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  on Hydrant. I've gotten a lot of thanks for maintaining Hydrant, and I ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution". It's rated 4.6 on Amazon, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making ... of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... music, and read a book or write a blog post. And the fear of missing out

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  old and cranky to have a comment on any of these things but numerology ... of personality test. Humans are inherently adaptable and fluid, which ... evaluations of character or qualification, but a little silliness and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  place, sharing thoughts and experiences on many of the topics I discuss ... written by a single person and printed on a sheet of paper, today's Hunts ... and make a final decision. How does any of this apply to Mystery Hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation ... would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in the summer and over IAP, focusing primarily on creating profiles of ... ’s support of the international and immigrant members of their community. Two of the students from this post are from the Middle East and two are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017