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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  of my friends know, I love airports – I have half a mind to spend ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere ... -decker buses and inattentive taxi drivers, I'm treated to a tranquil route

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... 308. The Cheney Room is a lovely space, and if you want to learn about ... providing a space dedicated to women’s needs, especially in the context of the

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

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

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... , invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... Daughter holding a mystery box to collect candy – so cute but they are not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany ... ! After the ceremony, I met up with my family and we went to a couple of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... incitement to celebrate SHASS, and giving a lucid, balanced explanation of the ... , infused with careful critical thinking—a tribute to SHASS in style as well

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania ... , covered by Nahid. Next to me, five people huddled in a beige blanket dance

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to ... . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT. Many students struggle to find time to sleep without playing a varsity

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

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  yet to re-experience that level of wretchedness since coming here as a ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012