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  finding place

  

  putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to ... literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... going on, which is great. This semester I went to Mexico with some besties

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building ... Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects

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

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all ... . your life is your own, and you alone will dictate how you'll grow and ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... -check my camera, getting batter on the trackpad of my laptop. Every time I turn my audio on to say something, a red exclamation point pops up and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  . Finally, I'd like to credit my friend Lucas Ospina '26 on the card as he ... class and present your work to thousands of people. Artist: Anika H. '26 ... game theory class I took on listener. I especially made sure to add a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  .                                                        (Shanghai's Suzhou River) I asked my mother how to say “Sorry, I’m American ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  used on Saturday and the rest has since been distributed to other halls ... on competing next year for sure. To start, competitors had to define a ... little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this

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

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school ... that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves ... out early to get to my 2.30 pm class on time. Location: Building 24 2 ... we eat dinner together on Slugfest, before splitting up again to go get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... excited about getting to solve these puzzles. Furthermore, Next Haunt was ... flashlights couldn’t write things down and had to rely on verbal communication

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the ... with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to

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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... 1880s. WXGS welcomes you wholly as you are and encourages you to be your ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... on my list of worries, which have suddenly expanded dramatically to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had ... point, and these organizations began to evaluate their own on ... for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove ... nowhere to visit a friend I made on a train. I had a great semester off, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016