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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school ... MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get ... nearby item. Neville did a dot hunt to look for Trevor, his pet toad. Here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... diminutive of parka, as in ‘I-need-a-parka’ weather), though due to severe jet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  couple of papers a week, which I felt helped me a lot to get context for ... imperfect, and thus that there's a ton of room for me to have an impact. Most ... 's a reason for you not to do something, then there's probably an equally

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical ... .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  for her perspective. Nikayah learned that MIT used to have a history of ... system was important for all three of them in their decision to join a D9 ... ’s a powerful moment for people to come together and bond over the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before

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

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... . Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this space and of your lives.

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more

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

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk ... would be a sorry place if its students were unwilling to pause for horse ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  roommates, Dayna, wanted to put on a tea party for the house. I wasn ... didn't mean for this to be a humble brag about my vision, but here we are ... read this far down, you probably got a good feel for what it was like to

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... fascinating! here is a great article, if you wanted to learn more']spread around

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... instrumental track as a gift for my birthday. The song was called “Delta P” to ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... before). Same goes for studying for a test - TAs are known to host exam ... : it's sheer folly to study for a MIT exam like that. Anyways, the 50

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it ... colleges way before senior fall. For a lot of juniors, applying to jobs ... basically just want to see if you're a good fit for their company. Technical

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

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  floorpi for a semester, before moving to Epsilon Theta, an [annotation note ... lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta ... distributed amongst the stage, and we made a bunch of pillows for them to sit on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015