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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... setting cars on fire: eight years prior, in May 1928, the first East ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  together, and would arrive later that night. I showed Charles, who was in ... to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  how MIT was the best school in the world and that I would certainly ... they were going on and on about how cool it would be if I got in, and ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . I never really knew how blogging would affect my experience at MIT and ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... December 30th and got in my first fight with my mom about how I was

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is ... to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write ... I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle ... name. Malingap is talking about what I’m interested in and feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  friend, accused of raping children and in all honesty I would probably tell ... would not have the library that I study in. We would not have the new ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in ... . Going to the IOI, I would always be reminded about how much time the NOI.PH staff spent on training us, and how it would be a waste if I didn’t do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... up eating his entire pound in under 2 minutes... and I had only

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

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... catalog was published” and “today” means “today, in 2021”. I won't be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  weeks ago, I joined an a cappella group, and I did wind up living in East ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... : Learn the building numbers. I would still consider this one incomplete

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... rather not give it in such a zombie-like state. As I knew they would (few ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  rather than entrepreneurial, in which case I imagine it would be less of a ... In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  , not realizing just how quickly it would drive down Cambridge Street. I ... in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020