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  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 / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job ... usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or ... to my psychological health"; in fact, he just had two treadmill desks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do: being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... supposed to, and there are even some people that already *know* how to ski or snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  a week or so in advance. And this'd lead to some fun speculation about ... puzzles, there'd be no reason to show up in-person or do things like that ... choose which dorms to live in. You live with people and you make memes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... we should meet, because he was concerned about my ability to do well in ... was either a) in a subject I felt I was bad at or b) on an assignment I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  in appearance or actions, I chose to use “Butch Heroes” to indicate ... center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in ... bringing food to today, I met in class sophomore year (as it happens

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens ... 'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... to the troubles in life, comparing problems with the weather, as ... to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013