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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so ... the renewal is supposed to entail. Most of the refurbishments are meant ... participated in several traditions that allowed us to meet all the other members

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... worked, and I managed to unscramble almost the entire message (mostly ... – 4356! That must be the code to the combination lock in front of me

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  , toss that in the pot to brown. If not, skip this step. When the meat is ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  difference to me is the math. Differential Calculus is listed in second ... differences from the 1916 map. Most notable to me is the explanation of room ... space. This is in proportion to the growth of the student body, so it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code. Thank god. The school building is small, so we were able to find our

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or ... is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... these qualified students? This is where the idea of "diversity" comes in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm-to ... mainly academia orientated?" Now, the short answer to this question is yes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense that pretty much anyone who’s been a student here in the last 100 years or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  the most out of the class. The purpose of the recitation is to ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... be the most helpful, so I now attend his recitation twice a week. He is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  launch ceremony, in which the book is presented to an audience and sales ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... caught the Hamilton references in the blog title, this is actually my most ... pull in extra furniture to ensure everyone has a seat at the table. Some

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of what to do next has been having faith in the fact that God is in ... far to myself. In the last episode of This Is Us, one of the characters ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post ... and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you go, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  is what makes me feel connected to myself, others, and the world in a ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... to soak in the weather, thread bits of yarn through warp and weft, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year ... a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... bus trip to a random liberal arts college somewhere in the Northeast

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011