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  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... hours to socialize. 5 hours to waste on grooming, latest YouTube hits, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to take on their projects and jumpstart the proud tradition of MIT hacking ... TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  home (I have plenty of friends who were deferred and got in), or maybe ... this feeling. And it can be kind of terrifying. Even applying in the ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... spectrum -p"]orange,[/annotation] and certainly interesting. I’m sort of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  just go to the MIT home page, click on academics, and then read through ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request ... would rock. Everyone would be happy. I don’t have any examples of this

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  to start working on the Hunt. It was a lot of information, and the ... whole Hunt, and of those that do, each individual works on, maybe, at most ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  student groups on campus, WMBR has one of the largest direct community and ... lot of variation in what goes on the air, and most of the shows have ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  the thing you've been working on for so long. and that was true of my ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  score of 4.8 on them, and I have a 4.5 weighted GPA despite doing 3 ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on ... pedals. The keys of the piano would move on their own and music would just ... the cart and up the stairs to my room on the second floor. I did most of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  -state and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... ” applicant in any way, shape, or form. Sure, on paper my grades were good, and ... put in a lot of time and effort to take college classes or take on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  surface of a pond -- if those people and that pond were on the moon."  3 ... ."  They got a bunch of volunteers to come on stage, and made them cry ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  . He threatened to kick me out of home if I insisted on being an atheist ... voice of God, urging him to quit his job and become a full-time pastor. By ... of God. And so I got baptized. I went to church, twelve to fifteen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  no idea what's going on at ETH and don't know any upperclassmen ... obtaining your residence permit and a lot of additional information on your ... depended on a weighted sum of our presentations, final project, and final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  horribly convoluted) back home. Making sense of your environment and the ... your pick of all of the washers and all of the dryers. Depending on your ... story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the ... years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... my identity as criticism of my merits, and I ended making a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  #1 on the housing lottery, joining a floor with decades of culture, and ... the number of on-campus people if BC is open and one with the number of ... love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  of yourself". I look back on those days and feel tempted to laugh at ... rolling up your sleeves and summoning your grit. Any kind of progress ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... ’s difficult to force yourself out of bed, and there are some nights when you ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017