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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  didn't have shade. In Cambridge, there are some rains that feel like a ... , it would begin raining and pouring. But it never did. I didn't have a ... wasn't a typhoon or anything, there'd be a guarantee that it'd pass. This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  night if we didn't have to leave the facility at 9:30. This was a typical ... , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT. It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Museum. Or I can give you a tour of the office I'm interning at, which ... about how tired I'm feeling, and for a moment, it'd feel like I could live ... enough that I forget about how tired I'm feeling, and for a moment, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a ... ’ve never guessed I’d be in a sorority, but I’m glad I gave the process a ... you don’t choose the same one as your buddies! Panhel as a whole is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  creative exercise (so don't make fun of the stupid science I'm doing here ... This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• 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?!

  

   on page 44 of T.F. Peterson's 2011 Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  . I'm going into a third year hosting DJ Awesome and the Wonderfriends ... answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... things I found: This really pretty poster from 2011. I’m assuming it was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... the important people but I'm pretty sure they didn't want to talk to me ... ! The shrubberies were a nice touch, but we couldn't figure out what those

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  you read an application and a “perfect match” is there. Please don’t ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  back home to Georgia, a short trip to Iceland (don’t ask), and a cross ... , T.S. Eliot a Fellow. First stop: the Porter’s Lodge. Imagine a small ... .” “Thank you.” “I’m so sorry about that, we don’t make that kind of coffee

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  been a whirlwind and there are moments where I feel like I haven't truly ... only slam headfirst into a brick wall, realizing that I wasn't smart ... industry, creativity isn't some magical thing that just happens. It is a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  building across, as though afraid to head there for a Biology Final it hadn’t ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  to never feel like you have to be in a type of relationship you don’t ... won’t necessarily apply or work for everyone. But, if you have a similar ... into a gray area full of lazy people who don't want to/are scared to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  others, either because of difficult content or a lecture style I couldn't ... independence is a gift and a responsibility that I haven't quite found a way to ... emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  belabor the explanation here. A puzzlehunt isn't just about puzzles. For me ... Mystery Hunt isn't a single-weekend event, but one that's grown to weeks ... could stay, but I wouldn't have a change of clothes. "I think I'll stay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... curiosity, mentorship, gratitude, and living a good life. A lot of lessons I’m ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  former was a pretty standard gir class experience. i wasn’t as interested ... m.701, drawing for designers. the class gave me a brief window of time ... didn’t feel as much as a desire to get highly involved. ESP ran programs

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  student weekend. This minority student weekend wasn't a very large program ... Preview didn't show the fun side of MIT? In 1988, there was then a column ... is a lie isn't something recent, it's been around before CPW was even a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021