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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... list. The email asks for applications for the Next House[annotation note ... something more to do, especially something that involved giving back to the

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

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking...         about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of the series’ 10-year run, a spinoff began following Matt LeBlanc as Joey. The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  other sites. Here are some excerpts from the article, written by staff ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and Petey asked me to write something to kick off the big anniversary celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• 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 my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

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

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being ... , I committed to BC after I watched the 2019 i3 video since I figured

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of my imagination. My friends and I sometimes imagined what the experience of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Wait, have you heard? I mean, it's only been published all over the MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news, and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I

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

  demons on depression

  

  Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

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

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014