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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list, asking us to apply for the[annotation note="Residence EXploration ... scenarios and start to put together a framework for each of them, considering ... in-person social experience as we can. That means trying to build a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  ...but for all additional essays I tried to tailor them individually). okok ... a picture for your audience. Personally, I liked telling stories in ... reader to think about. For example, classics in world literature rarely

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  cause that I’m not personally willing to work for; and second, that ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... up acrylic paints to wads of felt to, for some reason, a bag of 20+ oil

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  large part, enabled the blogs to become the epicenter of the online ... no road map to follow. I'll be forever grateful for Matt's willingness ... more incredible in person than you can imagine. Ditto for the fire truck

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

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... affectionate name for MIT. hosed (adj.) - Flooded with work, as if attempting to ... .) - Affectionate name for MIT. Sometimes shortened to 'tute. See Hell (n.) living

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... way. I don’t want to be a person that keeps pushing myself ... to MIT for a science research camp, and I remember hearing about how

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  only have one measuring reel long enough, so for future years we’ll buy ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... buy very few of them. It’s difficult to cut the side profile accurately

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... , just long enough for someone of my stature (footnote: read: short) to lie ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... to sign up to teach for Splash. [caption id="attachment_49472" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for ... week to build and was up for another week after that, and the students ... -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  directly to the Office of Admissions the FINAL APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center, I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the ... was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting, and I personally try to link each entry to as many other entries as ... random blog entries. You know, just for fun. 2. Tell us what you want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  over four years ago, for example, he told me that he wanted to be a ... ’ll move to Germany for a one-year Fulbright at the Max Planck Institute for ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... one wish i would wish for the haiku bot to reincarnate myself with haiku

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  that person is known for. For example, 1 Snively is equivalent to 1 byte ... Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read ... that we immediately headed for, only to realize that we weren't nearly

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify ... household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018