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  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  tweets aren't very funny. But some of them are really funny, if in an admittedly odd way, because while they are consonant in subject and voice with the source texts, they are probabilistically written in ways that the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  ...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to see the applications roll in. Students enter into the application ... , learn about their lives, fall in love with many, but can only choose a few

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael C. '16 explained in his post about Ring Premiere what the design of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of ... civil and friendly in our community.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the ... LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... . We even decorate it nicely for the holidays, see? In any case, the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and ... stay enrolled in an expensive school while my parents are funding my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... Humanities requirement, in which you could take courses about social issues ... currently affects policy in Washington. You may know that Junot Diaz teaches

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  . '15 were instrumental in sparking. In my pre-college days the range of music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks ... my noise choice in the past has always been TV, in the last few months

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back! (And maybe the return of m_quinn but hopefully not.) So, in usual ... probably pre-frosh anyway. (And my friends at work who, in the connected

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... surrounded by crazy people who love me. My home in Oregon was chaotic, noisy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  ) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... many symbols on it in honor of various events and ideas. Some ideas ... ~Ana Remember that awesome movie, Back to the Future? Well in the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a ... 'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As you may know, MIT students ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about ... to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... information session was a stellar opportunity to "spend time with my friend in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I ... that interest me. The report is in after 4 weeks and I absolutely love ... (the R in RSA encryption and CLRS) and Professor Indyk (a leader in the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong ... psets sound fun", and "won bronze medal in third grade spelling bee

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... polarization something direction of light something something." In other words ... , Daniel. Fortunately, we made it to the webcast in the nick of time, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say ... month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... bus stop when I arrived in the morning (which I found slightly odd

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012