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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  , literally everyone you can about it. Punt the decision and play board games ... Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  were unfortunately knocked out in the Round of 32. We won our first game ... games. Thanks to the soccer alumni, who were one of the first to hug the ... my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how

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

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

  

  know what board games I like? I like Roll for the Galaxy and 7 Wonders ... , despite the similar names, are unrelated board games. I like pop music, for ... tell you that I’m an international student from the Philippines, or that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s a very silly game Part 3: The why game Free candy On grasping scale The why game [caption id="attachment_49403" align ... -hour class dedicated to analyzing the soundtrack of the video game Celeste

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  game Star Control II (which came out the year I was born), painted by Capen L. ‘09. The screenshot of the game is from Wikipedia. Specimen 656E ... Autumn, two covenant ships, and the space station the game is named after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , likes/dislikes, means of socialization, etc. were all fair game. The ... Bros and other games...but choices were definitely made in the process ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried, they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  't really support their sport teams by watching the home games, even though we ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  insane one-shot tabletop roleplaying game based on the system written by ... into Revolution. Through the ages, board games have been a leading ... in doing so by playing games of the board and non-board varieties and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  the power was out. Lilly proposed a board game or a puzzle, and so some ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... . Neither the 2020 Hunt, nor the 2021 Hunt, nor this hunt, have actually had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... Twizzlers, Game of Thrones, etc.) But back to the point - when I look back on ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it ... have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... ="Freshman year was Madrid, sophomore year was Tokyo"]the United States ... Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  got to chat with one another and play a mean game of “Go Fish” while the ... As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  fine art. Much like the question "are video games art?" we can ask "are ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  the office, to writing or reviewing a game. In Tech Squares, work can be ... Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024