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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  used on Saturday and the rest has since been distributed to other halls ... finished off at the Bad Ideas Ball held on Sunday night. [caption id="attachment_41735" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Organizers Adriana J. '20 and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  together with your fellow sophomores on your dorm hall ... -shirts (which you can't really see because we all had multiple layers on because ... strawberry), a frat wearing tank tops, Burton 1 (a floor on Burton Connor

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... data on the self-reported underwear colors of people who have emailed the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... . The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on ... hours away. I didn't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks ... ’s been twenty minutes of this, the ache in my neck slowly appearing as if

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  minutes) Click here to see if you made it on time. You turn right on ... class quickly. (20 minutes) Keep reading to see if you made it on time ... you should be in class by 9:35AM. Total up all of the minutes you saw on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... most traffic of any entry ever written on the MIT blogs. While I am ... , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... in the wrong tower. You walk down the stairs, and exit on the top floor ... leave yet. The poster on the bulletin board says ‘IHTFP.’ Every poster

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  ) but by the laughs we have and the minutes spent together. Being on the ... ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... we all evolve based on social context and age. I reread this book every

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  much the same as last time. I took the model I previously trained on my old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  giving them away, because it was 40F and raining on race day. I cramped on ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  anyway, until my very first night on the MIT campus. But I’d been up all ... chunk of which was liquid nitrogen ice-cream. I jumped on a large bouncy house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... on the East Campus courtyard. The hallways were filled with boxes ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  particularly refers to personal ads about missed connections: You were on your ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube ... YouTube statistics The New Entity || VEDA #8 – about me, The Friendly ... '  Optimism || VEDA #26 – MIT Ballroom Open II, Jeremy Jordan, reflecting on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  notoriety for writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 times on his Stanford application ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City ... universities which were usually selective universities. There are also threads on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... no idea what's going on at ETH and don't know any upperclassmen

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... turf war over my pillow. Yeah, my PILLOW. That I SLEEP ON. NOT COOL

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... emotions we feel towards college admissions decisions. https://www.youtube

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019