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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I ... , revolving around East Campus. Over one weekend during IAP, students compete in ... . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ). Now I can add the long-ass Porter escalator to the list of places in ... striking how different each of them has been, and how viscerally I can feel ... better recently! I've told the story once before on the blogs of how I went

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... room in East Campus at first, but now I have a cozy heaven. You will also ... roommate and I mentioned we lived in East Campus, people’s faces would often

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  how I know I can do these things? Look at all I've already done." As if ... exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  , East Campus made that. Only bigger. See if you can spot it in the Bad ... girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  learn things. Don’t fall into the East Campus/West Campus battle trap. I ... , driving and biking in the city can suck and be dangerous. Though it seems ... professors when you’re struggling. At the very least they can point you in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  unpacking, when I realized that I hadn’t checked out of East Campus yet. How ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in ... ] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... im trying to run to my room so i can cry in the [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... that doesn't inspire you. You can contribute to the world as a woman in ... with optimism. Nostalgia can be deceptive, so remember to live in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  planning and editing it and by how many people (also lots). I worked on it in ... blending is seamless. I’m in love with how the piece evolved and ended up ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  check my guests in. I can stay for the summer without applying again. I ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to ... 's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling ... 't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... thirty-six responding in some way. One lesson I've learned is how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  those opportunity buys are clutch. For example: I like salad. I can grow 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort ... trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020