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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because ... and eating midnight breakfasts together. So, on the occasion of

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

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  [annotation note='another institute gym, located on campus proper']Wang Fitness ... basement.  LESS GOOD: It’s located on the 8th and 9th floors, so it can only ... targeted machines, so weightlifting focus here is mostly on free weights

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  you're in-game 24/7. On weekdays I usually entered game at around 7 or 8 PM and stayed until 1 or 2 AM, and on weekends I entered at around 3 or ... on game because I was having fun! I spent time outside of game looking

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

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

  

  live in an apartment with some EC friends, who all lived on slugfest in ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... like a college student, based on the college-centric questions that they

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  used on Saturday and the rest has since been distributed to other halls ... finished off at the Bad Ideas Ball held on Sunday night. [caption id ... of the winning teams' strategies. My team is planning on doing this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  Tech (MIT's student newspaper) conducted a survey on stress called "Under ... truth is - and I think it's pretty clear, both from living on this campus ... else on this campus, but I have done a little bit of this and that. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... . I'm certainly not trying to pawn off my indecision entirely on our ... week involving the stomach flu and drop date, neuroscience won out on top

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

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

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... a train. I get off on Kendall, and it all felt so practiced; seeing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  , laying it on an anvil) and molding the exterior with chisels. This is how ... ![/caption] The fourth one experiments with leaves (a success!) and twists on a ... and the sides of the heart. Happily this worked on the first try! Now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... share with some of our prospective students what it feels like on the ... withholding the application process from my friends. On the top floor of Senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  one on sale at the Container Store (BEST STORE EVER) that folds up, so ... with a $200 discount for being a college student, as well as a rebate on ... : service plans - there are certain places on campus (i.e. the student center

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate. There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter

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

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

  

  . '14 Ten Years (On Dreams) by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16 Mystery Hunt ... continue processing our feelings in real time online on other platforms, but ... asked to hold off on posting until this challenge was over. Maybe it only

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

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  graphs were made by [annotation note=" check out his last blog post on ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... itself up like clay on my shoulders. Maybe that’s why frosh energy is such

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... . The summer after my freshman year at MIT, I wrote the following on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  local coffeeshop in my hometown called mission coffee.    a few words on ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... wisdom teeth removed. i reflected on the fact that i was totally

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018