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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this ... in its north and south walls, to allow for expansion of the dorm. Today

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other ... like. This Russian salad was what I decided to make when CJ asked me for ... Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Making the sauce: Bring some the stock to a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... let awkwardness be a barrier to being aware or being informed, for our ... exclusive to the 2+ people involved. This is not, for the most part

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  ’t even have the salty tears to show for it. I’m sure I was hosed in past ... , it would be so easy for me to lose myself in the jadedness and void of ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know ... Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . That’s also why I study for exams the night before, and try to avoid ... ). Online dating apps are a great way to expand your social circle beyond the ... mailed, feel wonderful for all parties involved. Also, send snail mail to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for ... 's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting ... temperament or sense of humor, to compelling personal experiences, to a wide

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... as the others. For example, almost all the people I've talked to have ... get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

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

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

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... baconstrips (and baconstrips and baconstrips) for you to shove down your food ... can curry favor by having all the expansions for Race to the Galaxy. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru ... start or join then you can definitely take the initiative to do so! For

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one ... a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... closed to construction, and for a long time all you could see as you rode ... waiting at the MGH station around 5:00 PM, waiting for the train to come in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... be ascribed to not studying for long enough, but at some point “I just ... 's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  . Only worn when Mobbin’ Stay posted to our website for all upcoming ... states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include ... broke the other day, and I went down to Wheelworks and hung out for 45

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  person’s identity that they hadn’t expected to find; for others, however ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017