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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that ... fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know. I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... people you do see every day too. So I guess just make friends

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  forums, which I’m nervously excited for! I can imagine being here for a ... for my plans. Do as much as I can and learn as much as I can at Akamai ... out I don’t think I can talk about it anyway. (I’m transitioning to a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  past. We can help. Have you slept? Good luck. EC Gothic Nchinda N. '17 ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  can probably imagine, when we release our admissions decisions on Pi Day ... know it or see it, that I won't be worthy of connection? The things I can ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For ... an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... challenges keep me grounded too. If it's raining, I can't lift, and I have to ... math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , having seen the kind of welcome our community can pull together, I feel at ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  yet there's a common kinship. I am awestruck by how many stories I can ... . '17.) I can only hope that you do read through parts of the site, and ... I'm writing this blog post's introduction from an Amtrak train

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... that Esperanto can be learned quickly. The second class I was coteaching ... involving buying and selling pieces of chalk, and I think that helped explain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  academic adviser, hahaha. I kept this exam since 2008 because I still can ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT experience." :P Technically, I'm not kicked out from the blogs until the end

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

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and your decisions are released earlier than ours were, but I'm willing ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 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

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other ... Random Hall. I once asked a former resident of Random Hall why the milk had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even ... to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in ... next to my house? I just can't pick >.< Got into [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean, I can't really stop you? I think it's more fun to play individually. Also, I highly doubt that you can properly collude with everyone. So yeah

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... Remember when I said that we're human after all? That's still true. And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  time. (Despite the fact that usually I can barely see the top.) How it ... try to convince ESP to buy me a circular saw (which they did!). I ... mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  " articles, etc.) that are released in tandem with the episodes. Not only am I ... building a portfolio of work that I'm proud of until I can (maybe) do ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014