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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the ... ... REX/Orientation and CPW, on the face of it, seem very similar. They ... , on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by ... some of the courses here can be), and that's perfectly fine! So don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  ? And it makes me reflect even more on my past. At the end of my freshman ... of time to relax.  Once in second grade, I came back home in tears and ... is wonderful, and can make you feel like you’re on top of the world

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  of laws and ending up on various rooftops around campus. Hacks could be ... . Let other people risk life and limb crawling on edges of buildings, I ... out and the police car was carefully disassembled on top of the dome and

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... include packing all of my stuff and getting home safely, but it does sit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  shifts, and one day a jar of alfredo sauce cracked on the assembly line and ... walking. I’d been living on pizza and espresso and this one weird brand of ... looked different on this side of the world, and promised that I would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously ... founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who ... fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but ... reflect on and preserve cool recent experiences—makes me realize that my ... clubbing, queer stand-up comedy, and my new hobby. These are the kinds of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  receptions, tours of athletic facilities and UROP labs, and a discussion on ... citations, some synthesizing, and rampant speculation on my part; I'll make ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  more and more afraid of speaking with other Chinese people. I lost all my ... saw the characteristic river and the unique scenery of Shanghai, I was ... , and then come home and cook food. I would go with my brother to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  -- 1) we're representing MIT to all of you out there, and we don't want ... over-21 student blogger, and 3) some of us just aren't the classic frat ... direct result of no fewer than four dorm parties (and, in case you didn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  limits of my mathematical patience. On several quizzes and exams, I ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... Admissions and MIT students quickly put together in the span of a month. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... of my stuff and continuing the move, I laid down on my bare mattress ... having all my stuff, and the other half of the room slowly becoming empty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  springs (and, importantly, not on a hill) so that any interference with the ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... and that's not the point!"]50 more rectangles.[/annotation] Kind of a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  and watched more old episodes of Captain Planet (5 AM weekdays on UPN ... parked myself on their couch and fell asleep to the sweet sounds of their ... my room, lock the door, and play NES on my laptop. But last week I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• 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?

  

  spend a lot of time on the internets answering questions about MIT and ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... projects on which I'm working and write my dissertation, which I'll defend in

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006