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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  again next year. The data has shown us what we'll need to do to win first ... little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  the infinite (if not all, I'm not sure) lead to the tunnels. It's the ... first, I balked at the idea of walking all the way back to Maseeh with no ... Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people ... favorite subject. The first time I went to office hours, my mind was blown. I ... , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  & Meditation first, Yoga right after. Although having to take half of ... in the Infinite tunnels: liquid nitrogen containers chained to the wall ... and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  with a family in my first few months at MIT and for being home to many ... prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... my mom I got into MIT. She said congratulations. I went to bed. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  fever. He was the first Class of 1892 graduate to pass away, and ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and for the first time in ages I felt grateful to be alive, even if just ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... sometimes referred to as boston. the city itself is often called boston proper

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s go back to finish that first sentence … and I mean E V E R Y detail of ... ! Luckily for me, my part of the presentation was first, so I got to get the ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020