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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... to my freshman advisor (or maybe my parents, I don’t recall; I still ... , working alone or in tandem, that happened my freshman fall might have

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  field to another. People who are working in big companies or startups, or ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are ... people. My quest to trace the past residents of my room began in early

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  second or third or fourth petri plate with different antibiotics or food in ... opportunity to participate in a beginner-level appropriate competitive match to ... prospective students. Here is what he said: Try to keep things in perspective

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to McCormick in 1999. Each floor has three or four rooms—mostly double ... . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the ... started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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 ... identify as LBGTQ+. Some may not be out to friends or family, some may have ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... magnetic strip swipes and pin pad punches led to this array of stuff. Or ... the in-ear ones, and I usually grab them when I’m going to be sitting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... friends who weren't afraid to spout Maxwell's equations in regular

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... I continue to regularly eat peanut butter straight from the jar, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of Boston, next to news about the Fertilizer Plant Explosion in Texas, next to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... shifting idea is starting right now in someone's room or the coffee table in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... ! There are no consequences or problems if you decide you want to withdraw. Don’t be afraid to voice concerns. Ask your PRC or the chapter members

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically ... information to, say, advertisers (or other, similar parties). Zuckerberg talked

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone ... , fellow frosh or upperclassmen, may try to tell you that all the Orientation

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  you until 4 in the morning tearing through your 14.01 psets - or if you ... most popular floors in Burton-Conner floor rush (which is similar to dorm rush, in which freshmen traverse the floors to see where they'd like to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007