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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . 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 ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management ... week) is fewer courses than a good number of upperclassmen take (not

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... , which is basically the cause of those past two paragraphs of digression

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... of you, I know, that is not good news. But hopefully most of you

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of ... meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands of dollars each year. I mean, never mind the fact that the set of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  lower than the dorms, while maintaining the style of living with a bunch of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  being in a position of good fortune. five. for the past few days, i ... brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out in the minds of those who knew him. He was the butt of many a good ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  requirement later down the road. There are a lot of good classes at MIT, and it ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... fireplace fifty years down the line. As have many, I've adopted the mantra of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... ." "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we

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

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists ... here, I was pretty far along the science extreme. I'd done plenty of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014