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

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  said that why yes, that would be great. So my friend asked the natural ... the extra marginal decisions that came with being poor, like needing to ... need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  to the bottom for my concerns about how COVID-19 will affect FSILGs and ... their work (or in the case of brunch, too deeply asleep in bed) would be ... twelve, because there was no space – not because the supports would fail

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  "]REX[/annotation]committee. Under some amount of wishful thinking, I apply to be co-chair of the ... RSI experience had offered me the first chance I had ever had to be ... of this disparity seems to be that even though we'd provided the

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

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  will likely be. There are some classes that are always very popular and ... . You'll register with your advisor, and everything will be fine, even if ... these classes are about because the schedule will likely change by the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  An update for our transfer applicants: Emily Sheldon, who coordinates transfer admissions for our office, will be emailing all applicants ... reading the profile of transfer student Ian McKay featured on the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  be countered with one titled "The Maintainers: How Bureaucrats ... for the sake of being a startup founder. Leave the water running Things ... lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Butterbeer will be served. 21:17 - 24:17 Sunday, August 25th RHOP ... shattering apart, remember it's gonna be the future soon, so apply forgetful functors to the past and be still alive. 16:17 - 19:17 PCB Design and LED

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

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

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

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

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three ... rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... know if these programs would run in the fall, let alone how they'd be run

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... committed to being changed. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept ... -year students don't realize this, but they are being used as the unit of

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  /dance/yoga breaks. Don’t think that you have to be working or occupied all the time ... graduation, mostly because I knew that Mitra was going to be across the bay ... the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... than two thousand friends, all throughout the weekend there would be high ... going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  ? crisis. The path was pretty clear: love physics, be ridiculously good at it ... being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world ... rehearse for the musical, because no one would be able to hear me) and phoned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be ... young minds were being brought under the single ideological roof of MIT ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you ... of shame in having “failed”: Shame is really easily understood as the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  bones there would be no body without the bones. just how there would be no “college” without the hallmarks typically associated with the ... am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  major, making music, writing poems—the list goes on. These posts will be ... will be people again in the fall, but moving out still feels solitary. It reeks of finality, even if I know I will be back in the fall. It is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to ... should be enough to keep the eyes from thinking I had died. Back to my ... it be it. Phone check. No change. 1 minute left. I looked around the

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

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... being called foreign in a place I consider home, or about the differences between Addis Ababa and the countryside, or about what “being Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016