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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... using scripts.mit.edu.  However, given our lack of website ... build working websites :D And so we moved on to the real thing™. game

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... exhausting, so I remove my media and pour 59 new plates of agar. I go a little ... this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  me since I left consulting and moved on to a fast-growing furniture ... is on remembering the best of who I’ve been and bringing my favorite ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of ... This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  start to discover new layers of your personality and your relationships ... because you’re the kind of person who might love it. Life moves fast here ... . Congratulations on your acceptance(s). Best of luck choosing. :)

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I stood slack-jawed with my new book as it dawned on me where I had seen the ... name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ), Chicago (Swapna '05), New York (Laura '06), and of course, lots of people in ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... lab this summer, and I'm working on neural development in mice -- one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... fast approaching, so I hastily worked on my Common Application, and sent ... glimmer of hope induced by the relatively lower scores on some parts of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , I slept on a bare mattress. It was an awful experience, zero out of ... : We are experiencing delays of up to 15 minutes southbound on the ... of our path was on the sidewalk next to a pretty wide boulevard

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... Burton-Conner: potted plants on windowsills and a Dalek at the end of the ... again across the lawn. On the other side of the field, chains of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in the summer and over IAP, focusing primarily on creating profiles of ... the time) with a thesis titled “Experiments on Resistance of Riveted ... , Committee on Scholarships recommended him “for the favorable consideration of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... Anthony R. '09 A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  clubbing, queer stand-up comedy, and my new hobby. These are the kinds of ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  paragraphs and sentences depending on what type of company I'm applying to. I ... challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... well for different styles of cuisine, how to utilize different techniques ... on high heat. I use 1 bouillon cube per cup of water, but you can use

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this ... and only focus on one of them, I can’t. It’s too painful. Not only that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... on-and-off campus. That leaves about 3 percent of people who just live ... lot of MIT resources for finding housing. You can email them for help on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... House, New House, MIT Admissions, 24.900, MTG, Course 8, and so on. Some ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Yellowstone and New Hampshire, have fun :D"][/annotation] And on Saturday ... on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the ... ... REX/Orientation and CPW, on the face of it, seem very similar. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023