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  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 ... ! Approximately weekly "game theory"-ish games for Next to play Paolo why? I ... ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... enough. It's been a long road for someone like me to get my foot in the ... to the bottom for my concerns about how COVID-19 will affect FSILGs and

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

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

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It ... had been routine process for my high school (which was partly owned by

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

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

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT ... to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 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 :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... Breakerspaces that are run by students for students to, bluntly, make or break ... ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  know. 13.Try new things by going to an event you scanned over whilst ... events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... to other prefrosh. Everyone wants to meet new people just as much as

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... for it because all my other waking hours were completely occupied by

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... . Most movies like this go by without my notice. But last month, I heard ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... . It was surprisingly difficult, however, to collect my data from Google ... days) for an email. In my case, the collection happened from 11:15 am to

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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that ... , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... hard learning things I wanted to and leave Algebra II studying for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  January 1st to me. It's always defined a new direction for my life. Three ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... , not four. It's easy to say that you'll read the lecture notes for the ... requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  my new favorite spot to study for future years. Applying randomly to a ... the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  surreal). During COVID, while waiting for the New Zealand borders to open up ... New Zealand, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with the Centre for ... the Broad suggested that I apply to MIT for transfer to get more

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the ... overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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?!

  

  effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of ... referred to as Senior House, collectively) opened with the new campus ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014