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

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... lay in wait. After a chorus of "joyeux anniversaire", which ended on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• 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?!

  

  him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is ... dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  brings me joy. Let me take you on a brief tour of my cross ... every weekend cross stitching or designing cross stitch patterns. I was on ... Park themed. I began by working on a HUGE South Park mural.  

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which ... will take place on main campus. There’s east campus on the east, which

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

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while ... research paper on immigration reform due this weekend that I should probably

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on ... . You’ve found something you love. You’ve nerded out on it. You want to ... , skill, and perseverance. It depends more on you than on the school you go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... . We do our weekly meeting on Tuesdays (called Cruesdays) in the student

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... a wind indicator on the top of the boat?" asked joseph. "yes," said ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... my room, lock the door, and play NES on my laptop. But last week I was ... -DOZ addictions that they proudly chronicle on their blogs, and they also confuse

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving ... were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the ... "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... ="the Eastside Party"]a big party[/annotation] on it as part of [annotation note ... "] CAD model of our fort.[/caption] We started work on the morning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  figure out where on this diagram we want to fall. But now, with a year into ... one on the art end of the visual storytelling production pipeline. But ... clearly by graphing on a plot. This graph is looking at the short term and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... munching on the starbursts I snatched from the dispenser, she had already cut ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011