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  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of

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

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

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... you. Different places suit different people (which is true not only of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• 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

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs, and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny ... /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera-wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... to the solution, the climax, the moment of insight, breakthrough. That

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in ... account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 ... proportion of international students in a U.S. institution. In a 1917 Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017