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Is there really a Game Lab?
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Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?
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Blog / MIT Life
day in my life except it’s a live blog
crew of astronauts on the ISS). maybe i'll write a post about it in a ... Pickpocket which i saw as part of an urban planning film series that one of my ... people ask stuff like "what kind of movies do you watch" or "what kind of -
Blog / Challenges
Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable
note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... video feed and go put one of them outside, one in the basement, one in a -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.
five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... this before, but my summer is very routine and kind of boring. I have ... ?), and kind of interesting. Here we go! 1) Before Wall-E there were -
Blog / Featured Blogs
College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!
Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea. I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because -
Blog / IAP
made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week
each owned one set of clothes, much like my Oregon Trail family. I play ... warmer jackets. On Boxing Day, I got an extra shirt and pair of pants. I ... to the MIT Mystery Hunt team I run and orchestrating a series of -
Blog / How to MIT
loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process
My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room ... additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…
of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... rehearsal? Or maybe they're giant versions of Minecraft note blocks?) Like much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream -
Blog / CPW
an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊
lag and low video quality"]livestream[/annotation]showing the Class of ... with the intention of ever posting it later on (i.e. publishing this blog ... 's easy to lose track of time with pretty murals. I promise I end up walking -
Blog / How to Human
B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1
It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we're Burton 1, the first floor of Burton Connor! We love the color blue, bones -
Blog / Events
life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????
dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming ... where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out -
Blog / Residential Life
All the 2023 i3 videos megapost
As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online -
Blog / Classes
Above Ground now breathe
-- that next big thing that'll finally get me out of this slump of emo ... rather boring. I've been feeling like I'm on the brink of something bigger ... my hands dirty. Thankfully, I have a few of those projects happening -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead
the same dorm touch, they merge into one! Note: The order of dorms ... link here. (Very) rough counts of windows by dorm (all counted by hand by the wonderful creators of this game 🥲): Random Hall: 96 windows -
Blog / MIT Life
Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism
of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum ... comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.