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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... "]"multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues ... errors when you can't see what you're writing. VI. Family Feud East Campus

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I ... : The much-less-famous yet more credible Big 5 test. Enneagram: This thing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of 2012, you can and should get your copy of How To Get Around MIT this ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• 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?!

  

  were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original ... inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be ... additional living spaces began soon after. Despite an intense desire to get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  meetings with the faculty. Now, I know how easily gossip can get amplified ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake ... hand. Alright, if I can’t [annotation note="At reasonable prices and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  -changing decision arrives. and so admissions decisions can be hard to ignore and easy ... these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... will usually be four years. you have so much to do afterwards. regardless

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

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

  

  directly, and sending it to us so we can keep track. I don't remember much ... . It feels like I've grown. That much, I can tell. But in what ways, I ... excited. It'd be ESP's first ever virtual program, which meant so much

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

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  's a single historical source where you can read about these kinds of things: the MIT course catalog. You can find the most recent course ... observations are organized into five categories. You can read this article in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  unsettle them as much as possible. While Urban Walcott urbanized with two ... ’ll be an hour late, we can finish what we have right now.” We went back to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’t cried about it. And it’s odd, because I came into this whole mess getting ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  amazing scores…2350…2390…even perfect scores…getting rejected or waitlisted ... nothing but positive comments: “You’ll get in; it’s you!” and “They’ll be ... shaky it took two tries to get the password right. And text suddenly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... based on its known coordinates. It wasn't much of a program, but while ... life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  characteristically as I read it. And oddly, I don't really remember much else of that ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... hour, or (more usefully) a block per minute. From this, you can quickly

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  into bins based on how much I liked them. The UROP was bad, the web ... shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... , so happy that I can experience something similar through front-end work

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... my mistakes. Now take that 35-lb backpack and let’s get going! June ... down. I’d watched a number of [annotation note="pretty much what it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... , but you know what they mean. It can’t be taught, but it can be lost ... .   Hey little bro. I wrote this in hopes that you can learn from some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  getting lazy. And that's okay: it happens. Now that I see it, I can do ... much. Having now lived in the Boston area for 23 years, the question I ... enjoyed them much more if I'd addressed the underlying problem leading me to

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it ... /scanner to me. It's being renovated right now, and I really hope I'll get to ... leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  correlation doesn’t imply causation, a controlled experiment can. As in, one can ... subtle or overt, but they are omnipresent, and they are likely much more ... counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015