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• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  some classes at Hogwarts and see if there are any similar ones at MIT ... : But this video made me semi-paranoid And then this cartoon from dieselsweeties made me laugh: ... so we quickly dashed on the bus and hurried

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  efforts. Where are you in this exact very moment? Take a picture. Tell us where you just were, where you are now, and where you are going next. (Feb ... Where have I been? I haven't blogged since February 3. A lot has

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  . Surely there are alternate realities where I practiced better self care ... floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... never done this walk before, and I hate not knowing where I am going. My

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  , and I feel confident that there are a lot of jobs where my chemical ... . The other day Mike, who I may or may not know, asked... "What are you ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  , who, unlike me, is not totally out of touch with what the kids are doing ... (physics). I live in a dorm called Senior House, where I’m co-organizing CPW ... The Gray House, where MIT’s president lives. what other dorm gets to see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Community School of Naples, what are the chances of two tying as ... share this honor," said Chandler. The girls are also co-captains of the ... Society. But they are far from heated rivals. "We definitely don't let the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  the common room, where the radiator is off. The German woman rooming ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... feels like such a relief. Warm showers are my second favorite thing, after

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer ... should work where you're happy and productive. Personally, I've

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  , but like, I see that you are Asian, but where exactly in Asia?” I could ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I ... ’s relationship, and who are we to erase a woman’s agency by assuming she must be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... , the situations that one has to confront are more dire than those found in high school. Yet, it’s also true that this school has made me a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are ... it! The main things I'm going to need to store are my whiteboard, desk chair, winter clothes, and [annotation note="I got this for free at a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... experiences. Some of the experiences are informative, some are advice, some are stories, and others are just completely random, giving you a look into the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  something? Are you missing out on something right now? Can you do anything ... (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... whole our entrances are facing backwards thing yet. (Tip for visitors: if

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  I've been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are ... "popular"? There are about 50 physics (full 8) majors each year (judging by ... , there are 22 majors. it's not as popular as say, course 6, which is home

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon ... to Washington, D.C. Very groggy, I sat down and made it through two ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  completely unaware of the fact that they are avid climbers - were going too ... , and I made our trek to Walker Memorial. It used to be a gym but now it ... again, I've only been there to take exams. We made our way up to the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  with my calendar and plug everything in, to figure out where decisions would have to be made, given the axiom “Anna is physically incapable of ... were clear violations of the axiom. So, decisions had to be made. I felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... grads who serve on the admissions committee) where he was. He heard me ... other. "Are you Dember?" "Yeah, hi, you're Laura, right?" "Oh my God, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  be able to say to you what Ben said to me (which totally made my day ... get it on Monday, which made my weekend a little anxious. We all arrived ... you're not." She knew exactly where I was going with this. She went into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  conference I've attended where the participants are housed in dormitories. I ... mysterious super-humans. Hopefully, these blogs are helping you realize that admissions officers are just people, people who deeply care about education

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005