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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  months here, and given the recent decisions regarding Senior House, I want ... dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? Hi! My name is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , I directed the MIT ESP SAT Program (and co-founded MIT ATI) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  those are all awesome. This concerns saving money and taking advantage of ... (and other stuff) (like a floppy disk drive, as if you'd ever need one ... longer want), freefood (which is what it sounds like), and other mailing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of August and is geared towards kids whose parents have been affected by cancer. Each summer, a combination of kids and counselors (all of ... with sports, nature activities, arts and crafts, ropes courses, drama

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision making. He is one of my favorite social scientists, and his work laid the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy ... , LARPing, literature, and so forth. Let me share with you a few stories of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  and dusted with cayenne pepper. The first time I slivered the crisp pink ... by the buttery sweetness of ripe apple meat, and finally dissolving ... and bipolar, or maybe tripolar, yet glamorous in a brutal Russian sort

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ... in which time had absolute meaning and humans had free will over

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a ... of "things to stress about." (Especially because I like my job, and ... Services and Technology. (Yeah, IS&T's website is sort of an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  immature and want to do it too, so you guys will just have 2 entries to read ... , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... other, and Adelaide is more important than Mystery Hunt. The puzzles aren

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  thoughts for future reference. Pages and pages of loose leaf college ruled ... some notebooks and binders, but I wasn't diligent about using them ... and the predictability of assignments, deadlines, and expectations, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  Note: Anika drew Anika and Jebby drew Jebby. If you can't tell who ... and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... would have a hard time believing that Nempnett Thrubwell and Coombe Dingle

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note ... years ago. I was left with pieces of pepperoni and cheese on the ground, a large stain on my pants, and a burnt-and-undercooked slice of tomato sauce

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... from the bubble to glimpse the wider world and plot real moves. And ... the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  with Janet '27, Allison '27, Ellie '28, and Sara '28! I won by hitting ... molasses exploded and flooded the streets of boston, and it straight up [annotation note="According to Wikipedia, 21 people were killed and 150 people

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don ... . Yet, most people do neither. They stay in purgatory and do some amalgamation of everything and nothing all at once. It is also worth nothing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is ... band stretched and released within their abdomens. That was powerful, to ... high school has never hesitated to call me out on my bullshit, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a ... math itself is a lot rockier, swinging between begrudging acceptance and ... 's understandable, since math is what you need to understand old systems and build new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  Thinking and Data Science"]6.0002.[/annotation]By the time I realized it, it ... that time? Not really (See #2). So, with a hefty bit of insecurity and ... . This semester, I am taking 8.01L, 18.01, 3.091, and 6.A01, which is a first

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of students submit their final problem set. Held breaths are [annotation note="And ... Python"]6.0001[/annotation]class recently ended, and it's time to unpack

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021