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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... your inbox. please come and visit. oh, and by the way, i hope to see all ... sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

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

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  as the week went by. The afternoon he left, we sat and talked to each ... to the person staffing it, and say what we wanted. It was nice getting ... things from Talbot lounge to the different dorms, and if we wanted to get

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  get to the point where I am now -- where the mirrors I look into are ... people get the chance to speak, I guess? Like, bisexual erasure is real ... queer. It’s just that, when you have the privilege of getting to spend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... boots. Where the wind blows and the snowflakes start to fall is only ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... pathogens. (If I were cooler, it would be good to actually replace the broken

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... the Broad suggested that I apply to MIT for transfer to get more ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -handed Uber drivers. Yep, I'm going to get a job. That's the conclusion. Egad ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and ... to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... wanted me to help him decide. Over the last few weeks I've met, emailed ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s was a funny amalgamation of flavors; my uncle’s was, by far, the ... ='defined as an "instance of extreme embarrassment caused by the introduction of ... immigrants, but that doesn't make it any less true. Prompted by the intense

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... an alarming rate from the shoots, and wanted to know what would be the ... was high time they got a server. And what luck, we were just the guys to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  hop the fence and bark at other non-numbered dogs. Dog 4 needs to be ... Dog 4 will eat Cat 1's food only if Cat 1 is standing by the food ... -check my camera, getting batter on the trackpad of my laptop. Every time I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he ... -bombing! That e-mail was subsequently e-mailed to the East Campus dorm list and

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... winning their conference, the MIT team went to the NCAA Championship

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  skates, or hoverboard for an easy commute, and wait to get used to the ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... dorm). DINING: this one is a major addition to the bill and an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... dissatisfying because as the days of summer went by, i felt my life became narrower and narrower, until it came to the point that i’ve reduced most of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... the ability to see the apple, if you never have the chance to use that ability, to practice it, then that ability may just lay dormant, and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it.” → I had to ... , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018