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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J ... . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a ... finished off at the Bad Ideas Ball held on Sunday night. [caption id

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... option that spans half a semester which is then followed by 18.02A which is ... than studying for a passing grade. But nonetheless, we balled anyway

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , and I was even contacted by a company to have a coffee chat about 2020 ... these companies by early september.[/caption] The weekend that the ... hosted by various student groups and companies that have come around to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the ... those knock-your-socks-off prospectives. Although Adam was by no means a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  first time I watched anime by any means. I grew up on Dragon Ball Z and ... took AP Literature (many moons ago) I encountered Americanah by ... . By now Ifemelu feels like a friend, and the week I spend with her each

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ” when their ability is reflected by their score. And as determined by the ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... men score higher on spatial reasoning tests, though you might have

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  other sites. Here are some excerpts from the article, written by staff ... lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... which they post their GPA, SAT/ACT scores, and some extracurriculars, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc ... edited and edited by a variety of different people. Just a voice, and ... students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  week to working 40 hours; while during term I'm actually limited by the number of hours I'm in lab, during the summer I'm only limited by the ... postdocs had a snowball fight -- postdocs from Asia vs. postdocs from Europe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the ... 's "REX", or Residence Exploration, put on by students, where you can play D ... the most important thing you will do that week by far (except perhaps if

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ". They shortly put up a Caltech vs. MIT website to "keep score", although ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self

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

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  points.  ~~~  Tl;dr: I made desserts inspired by my favorite Avatar ... What it Means Expectation vs. Reality: Lessons Learned Conclusion ... three-course meal cook-off at the end of July, which would be judged by my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  ball, running despite a cramp in your side, shaking your legs as the winter chill creeps into your muscles – all these feelings are replaced by ... by an antsy anticipation, by the sensation that your muscles should be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... Negroponte = "Measure of perspective, not IQ" Stephen Colbert = "Ball" John

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  fear precipitated by the high scores on the reject threads, and the glimmer of hope induced by the relatively lower scores on some parts of the ... had been routine process for my high school (which was partly owned by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by a ten foot steel-and-wire fence like a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... roommate somehow scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  by Lauren: "I'm pregnant." 9:20 PM: Lauren immediately turns to parents ... : Study break to discuss the cannoli vs. eclair. 1:32 AM: Problem set. 2

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor ...  this post by Afeefah!']Non-Stop[/annotation] pace, the experience can be ... regionalized, and by the time a student is admitted, they have been seen by

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019