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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Grand Poobah and which preceded Stephen Colbert’s super PAC army). I met ... MIT’s second dorm, East Campus, and the inauguration of the hacking ... . In MIT’s early decades, the fledgling Institute lacked both space and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  Now that it’s August, the fall semester is right around the corner ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he’s ... problems as I have. It seems, by default, that I think other people’s ... that’s what bothers me. It bothers me because it makes my problems feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually ... have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it’s

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there’s ... . Yeah. We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a college application or a job ... next year’s class, the huge far-more-collaborative milli

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s ... everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah, kid! go ahead and pursue it all, and see what happens. Here’s what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  sitting in the Common’s green spaces with the freshest breeze teasing our ... do, and Chinatown is awesome for that. My memories of the district’s ... ,” Faneuil Hall (with Quincy Market), Downtown Boston’s prime location for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard ... Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... ’ve since been informed that that’s a misguided conclusion to make, and I like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  many different ponds and hope something sticks, whether it’s a graduate ... these, it’s hard to see the difference six years has made outside of, well ... , and currently blonde, though it’s growing out. My glasses are bigger, my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  hadn’t seen in ages. It’s an interesting combination; the beginning and ... , option two, realize that whether it’s your body telling you or your brain ... start to notice your absence and wonder what’s happened to you. After not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  you read my responses. Friends change, it’s true, though I resisted ... to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... , you’ll never quite forget them. And that’s the beautiful thing about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  center, and it’s a highlight of my week. It’s a time that I carve out of ... . It’s usually made up of people from your own or surrounding dorms, but you can really go to any group you want. It’s a great way to get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... a teenager. But since it’s been a while since anyone’s blogged about it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just ... maybe you just want to know what to heck it is. That’s why I numbered it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  -July."]before,[/annotation] but after two weeks of not getting any references about Zuko and ‘that’s ... show, and it blew. my. mind. I was amazed at how a children’s show could ... . The world-building and characters are detailed and elaborate, it’s just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  the ideal MIT lives. There’s already a flaw in this reasoning, but we’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know ... like competition isn’t a part of MIT, but it’s different to how it was

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  mention her experiences with housing instability, homelessness, and women’s ... -worker.       This particular Twitter thread brought to light more context to Nadya’s ... an article detailing how Nadya undermined and exploited other people’s

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the rollercoaster’s boundary-pushing (last year’s rollercoaster track was 150 feet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It’s

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020