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

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of this list, which is actually different from year to year - if you ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... on my list of worries, which have suddenly expanded dramatically to ... our thoughts about the fall. We take administration's list of five

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  your local grocery store checkout aisle. Function (noun): No list of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . The Office of the First-Year maintains a list of these kinds of subjects ... life, and you'll probably come out of it with a list of fifty classes ... list with groups of friends. I think it's neat and wished more people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of ... art. You stitch little x’s onto a perforated piece of cloth using a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  list by the highest product of the two, admit the top 1,000 students ... following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... MIT, I've been the treasurer of Chinese Students Club, President of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  added to both of them to create two equidecomposable supershapes. In ... 18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really

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

  The end of a chapter

  

  -things-in-Cambridge list are actually the courses (Tripos) I took, which consist of ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012