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  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response ... As of right now, there are 300 responses! WOW :0 Burton-Conner had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  are likely the ones viewing MIT admissions on smartphones, to whom I say “ptooie” because I don’t have a smartphone and I think data plans are a rip ... unplanned --schmooze --collect swag (too many free bags! Companies: more flash

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW ... up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free ... fable where the fox convinces himself that the grapes must be sour, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer ... these are with MIT WGS lecturers who only spend about 4 hours a week at ... spring and summer. Now I have the freedom to take the project where I want

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and ... know more about glassblowing than me, please feel free to let me know if ... . Here's all the stuff I made! The zeroth week of beginner class is partly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals were permitted; now, there are just two. Burton Conner and New House were ... of self expression. East Campus and Random Hall are the only mural

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... had finally shipped the new book I had ordered, Monkeyluv by Robert ... when they discover that there are friendly, cookie-baking upperclassmen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  quite limited, and there are countless other blogs that could tell you ... own research. Finally, looking back, some of the decisions I made were ... they give you free room and board. Usually hosts and helpers share meals

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... , both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston ... . I made it reasonably far before Google Maps decided to mess with me ... across the bridge and then attempted to skate back to where I was supposed

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... Thursdays. EUREKA! Surprisingly, I'd made a discovery. MIT actually has both ... great dancer, so she made me look better than I actually am. She was also

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  ? Uncle John's Bathroom Reader This is where I get all of my random ... yet. GI JOE A free gift from the HASBRO building at Toy Fair. $25 value, mine free. Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College Would

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  curriculum, but they don’t have to be perfect and our decisions are made ... doing while they are doing it, but they should feel free to explore ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  you don't see your question or if you have another one, feel free to ... , and soak up all the trivial goodness that is: Q&A Are MIT students very stylish or are jeans and a sweatshirt a common outfit? There is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  here are some pictures if you are interested. [carousel image1 ... impression was, "Wow, there are a lot of stairs." I live on the 4th floor of ... bricks up was not fun, but luckily MIT movers existed, so I made sure I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a tour of Columbus Circle a jaunt into the Time-Warner Center (where we ran ... free tickets to see the US women's soccer team play against China in NY

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  .S. residency, rather, some of them are international students, some are American-born Ethiopians like me, and some are sort of in-between, who have spent time in ... sources, with some details that all line up and are probably facts, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  that some of them are so very final. Earlier this year, a friend of mine ... , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few ... cleanliness, the water pressure, and the extremely hot water made this the ideal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  .  Lunch is where people make friends right? So, we made a plan to sit with ... public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made ... was only around a 3 minute drive away from where we lived. Around

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019