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

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... dancing along my back in its high heels, stabbing my skin with its piercing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... I should have gotten B's in several other classes as well, but I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you already have in your room, that list'll let you know: essentially, bed

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

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

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in

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

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

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021