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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... you're in-game 24/7. On weekdays I usually entered game at around 7 or 8 ... , one night, I, Michael Corner (Alex B. '24), and Charlie Entwhistle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... feel that way at MIT-- when I don't know what to do-- I no longer feel

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  skip 13, 19, and 23. The registrar lists CMS as XXI-CMS, and STS has no ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  ME: no it's fred FROSH: but ME: fred * * * FROSH: so where do you ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... : no we skipped it * * * ME: are you going to the activities midway

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the idea (nobody really likes them that much, right?). No worries though ... looked like this: We had gone from 300,000 to 2.4 million in less than a ... points George Mason University earned! 2.4 Million! I've just gotta say

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  music connoisseurs, Newbury Comics. For the no longer hungry but still ... available 24 hours a day, every day. I have been told that every student must ... .S.: 24.118 Paradox and Infinity, a course that I raved about here, is now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  gets up with the first alarm anyway? 8:24 -- The alarm goes off again. I ... -so-warm) space heater. (Um, hopefully no one from Housing reads the blogs.) 8 ... pset and check websites again. 1:00 -- Sleep? Edit, 12:24 AM (because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I understand that people want answers and…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  got into every school ever! or No one believed in her until she got into ... no? Bargaining: Please, God, WHY would you let this happen to me? You ... elementary school, and early childhood, when we hear NO, we can ask WHY and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  fact that there are only 24 hours in the day and that sometimes, your ... . My EA decision had no impact on my long-term future, despite how it ... way I did, but it adds another level of perspective. I can no longer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that ... , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6:24 ... , no matter what the outcome is. You might be upset, but it isn't the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Stanford gym in my wallet, for whenever I'm in the Bay Area. No one tell ... interim. At this point, I had a space, but no equipment: no platform, no rack, no bar, no plates. This was early April, and seemingly everyone in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  Boston to take the exam and have no guarantee of admission? The exams ... 2="61026" /] Methods of Instruction. Still no class descriptions, but ... Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but it's otherwise the same. No

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  with us! No artistic skill needed! 20:17 - 21:17 Billiards Pool is ... trying to recreate trick shots. 21:17 - 22:17 Saturday, August 24th ... you attend this event? Come find out! No time travel experience

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  . There's parts of ESP's website that no one in ESP understands, and ... 'll never run again, there's no need to think about maintenance. But if you ... someone in this role, and they're no less of a maintainer than someone who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (which sadly does happen, as I wrote before). They have no place in serious ... must be about 12 years apart! (or I suppose 24, in which case, petey ... THE THINGS! So, you're 29% Ravenclaw, 25% Gryffindor, 24% Hufflepuff

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  model, conceived and built in less than 24 hours, wowed reviewers with its ... restart. But there’s no time left – the first round of reviewers ... transitions so well that there will be no need for presenters to change slides

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  ? I stayed at my dorm for the next 24 hours, watching the entire ... hours passed by with no signs of capture. I got some sleep at 7 am after ... enjoying a beautiful day outside or reconnecting with my friends? No more. No

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  suddenly had two classes (25’s & 24’s) who have never spun [annotation ... /volunteers/photographers. Because I had literally no idea what I was doing, I’d email people asking ... that questionable choices [annotation note="no idea if this is a common

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021