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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... data on the self-reported underwear colors of people who have emailed the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... topics. 15. LOOK AT THE POSTERS ON THE WALLS OF EVERY CORRIDOR. N: I didn ... ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I ... and talked to the Potential New Members myself. There was a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... internship in Europe in my field of study by November with minimal effort on my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• 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 ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... , and made quite a bit of extra cash on the side. A few years into

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

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

  

  in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... fine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  streetcorner, adding a bunch of songs to an iPod playlist called "On the Go 5 ... . And breathe. Slow inhale on a count of four, hold for a count of four, exhale on a count of four. Repeat twice more. You're gonna be okay

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the ... tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

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

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... most of my belongings in too many cardboard boxes. The dust on my walls and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... work/life balance means. again, this depends on the person—some of my ... pass out on top of your problem set. 2) join clubs and activities you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  dot the Charles’ 80 mile span. I’m only going to focus on eight of these ... ="attachment_56692" align="alignnone" width="1000"] it's there on the very left of my ... actually located on the dam part of dam bridge, and a highway runs through it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol)—on ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... part of what got me hooked on economics. (wow i am a nerd sorry) 6. The

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... , of CC chance threads, is true now of AdmissionSplash: No one on this

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

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... November 1st, amidst all the chaos and uncertainty of life, I have a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a ... , the "fine print" on our acceptance letter includes the following clause

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  : Equidecomposable The ability to chop up one figure and build a new one out of its ... to focus on invariant theory, a branch of abstract algebra examining ... was the dawning of a new century and a new era of mathematics. At the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  for most of their other dishes though...very meh. 34. Check out the New ... dozen of them around the world, the New England Aquarium is actually ... , and you're missing out on a key part of the MIT experience if you never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011