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  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  ; Angela '10 At the end of the year each floor in Burton-Conner holds rooming, in which each of the residents can either pick a new room or squat ... singles at the end of their first year. "I picked my room because I thought

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  's EVERYTHING. You literally passed through *at LEAST* 5 different rounds of ... much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... ;-- this at least I am proud of. 2. Eat N2 ice cream - you are not allowed ... for most of their other dishes though...very meh. 34. Check out the New

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  leave - I was ready to fly far away from Asia and be part of a new great ... examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT! At the time of the video

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home ... the numbers of every major or building at MIT. I like to use the ... currently students at MIT, some of them still bike to get to their jobs now

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  papers, each new paper being marked with a worn yellow post-it note at the ... , or none of my writing at all, or an author whose name was circled, or ... stained. It sat crisply in the back of an army of papers simply staring at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  Sloan fellows to Singapore University of Technology and Design undergrads ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  , and now the moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  this mess of overcommitment. Here’s another thing that’s new. For the ... , or DEAPS. The highlight of DEAPS was a trip to New Hampshire to scale ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , and the system was different. At the beginning of every piece, Mr. L ... volunteer at the beginning of the piece, and heard the applause at the end of ... I find it scary or intimidating. At the beginning of freshman year, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  . Which isn't AT ALL to say that I dropped it because of that first guy, but ... 've discussed earlier for new readers, is lecture/recitation format: one hour of ... well-versed in the format and intricacies of the material. At the same

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has ... unprecedented. At the end of the DormCon planning process, we settle on two new ... the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... want to help a new generation of students to get in. When you email, use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  well-balanced sign of the zodiac. They're great at thinking through ... -in programs to explore different universities in new settings, don't cross off ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... limiting and destructive way. I wish I acknowledged at an earlier stage of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013