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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe ... different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  together. Fortunately, Chris cut together a quick teaser for fun that ... sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... ’ve taken before. The workload for all of my classes has been reduced by a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  design lighting and sound for high school plays - there are an astounding ... discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  narrow down what particularly at Microsoft would work best for me. And I ... another, except for maybe Course 8. Fuck physics. Recently, I've been reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  again together for our senior year. They’re the best roommates ever ... my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... intense because we talked for hours straight, but I met some people during

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of ... like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... 'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  research, did well (enough) in my classes, and had a lot of fun. And for a ... your interest in MIT, and for making my trips so much fun! ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of suicide and mental health at mit. my undergraduate thesis for comparative

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... factor controlling the admissions process. Suppose, for a moment, we didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... ground for challenging other aspects of myself beyond my name - hobbies ... school. Frat parties? I’ve never been! Super Smash Bros? I’ve never played

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in advance for all the shakiness. Here is ~10 minutes from the 1 hour talk

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  institution is known for selecting only the best and brightest, who among the ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... ? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  "]reviews[/annotation] for my paper, and man they were [annotation note="alexa play 'brutal' by ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  metaphors for energy Me on my best (work-related) all-nighter ever Paul on how ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... 't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011