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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... for Concourse, ESG is a really great program. You can also sign up for ... you think you can handle it. It's really not interesting taking a class

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  pronunciations are the least of your worries right now. Another can of lingual ... I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... home to find dinner on the table. Hooray for boyfriends who can cook! (It ... phase changes and entropy is when she talks about the fact that water can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean, I can't really stop you? I think it's more fun to play individually. Also, I highly doubt that you can properly collude with everyone. So yeah

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense stress and fear about if I’m going to graduate and how I (can’t) afford ... world. I see friends who are struggling and I can’t do anything about it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be truly unlimited in your pursuit of knowledge, and nowhere else can you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  up for the night, usually around midnight, students can still venture ... . Regardless, Haymarket is the place for best grocery deals, ones a buyer can ... Do We Have Snot?" (hosted by Elizabeth C. '13), "Why Can We Regrow A

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

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

  

  point where you can’t empathize with the difficulties they face, and I ... systems can behave under sets of natural laws, and could give valuable ... , if I can handle it. Then there are the random engineering disciplines

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it ... ’s call it a tail—yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  you got in, it’s because you can handle it, and because you’re the kind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and that just by integrating into a floor culture, they can gain a lifelong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake ... hand. Alright, if I can’t [annotation note="At reasonable prices and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is ... 'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know ... : hey ME: hey FROSH: can i have my hair dyed ME

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  correlation doesn’t imply causation, a controlled experiment can. As in, one can ... overtly or not - can have very real consequences for their test performance ... really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  1916. East Campus can be found (somewhat unsurprisingly) on the eastern ... modern fire code, ADA[?], etc. and that would open too many cans of worms ... residents can do to the space, giving rise to murals and loft beds and crazy

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014