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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . For this post, I've written up 22 anecdotes from my time at tEp. (Read ... beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other

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

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... casual relationships right for them. Many people entering college do not ... . I understand that for some of you, talking about these topics might be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  CHI PLAY 2020, an "international and interdisciplinary conference for ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... for all fields - publishing in human-computer interaction probably works

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  information she was given prior to signing up for recruitment, she found that ... and other information needed and applied for the internship. He ended up ... .   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... shoveling the wings into his mouth faster than I could pick mine up. He ended up eating his entire pound in under 2 minutes... and I had only

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... closes with him coming up with I’m Still Standing, where it shows him ... neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in reading, travelling and backpacking along North India for two months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against ... hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... Pockets end up burrowing into the ground to set up traps for other critters ... fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the ... ; That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  Galactic. I signed up. Come November, I got added to the Discord server for ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t show it’s big red self for another thirty-three years! So let’s flash

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... was so cold that I had to stop to warm up on a grate blowing out hot air

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the ... happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... , however, I caught up with my cousins and by default that means going to bed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . 21W.013, which set up the way I wrote and approached essays for the ... I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  are, so we drew something for you!         ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit ... community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014