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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... battle with my four luggage bags. I still wonder how I managed to move all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  able to find empty rooms to photograph because during the summer months ... empty rooms during the school year, as EC is a pretty popular place to ... 's common for freshmen to get single rooms, though not terribly large ones.)

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just ... with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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?!

  

  lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship ... under conditions which are not conducive to either health or study

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

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• 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 ... . I learned how to float, on my chest and on my back, with the floater ... to stand, and I made it, by walking not swimming, shivering and utterly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... 's really not that much I have to offer you, unless you want fruit snacks. Or ... to think ahead about how each of the games would work and how prizes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  how to cry. MIT has changed me, yes. But not maybe as much as you ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... the parents of my fraternity brothers - not to mention the other current

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  see, to be quite honest, Course 16 is not designed like many other ... (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... joined Design/Build/Fly, learning how to solder, fabricate airplanes, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  . Zuckmeister seems to fall into the latter category. How Elizabeth Felt After ... because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play ... 't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to ... lonely dinners (he's not very chatty), but sometimes, when I am about to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  to the bottom for my concerns about how COVID-19 will affect FSILGs and ... to a quad. I was worried about how I'd handle the decreased privacy ... miss not having to worry much about buying groceries. I did buy some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  satisfying and empirically-supported explanation as to “what gives” was not ... course not a logically definitive answer to all things “nature versus ... counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  trying to answer a question? If we don't conclude, how are they going know ... or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college ... one draws you closer to the author? It's not surprising that you may

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

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space ... structure was out of PVC and not designed to support his weight at this point ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... to maintain even while we're not living in BC; for example, my floor

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

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to ... not a great deal of fun*)... how's life in your corner of the world? *and which is the reason I have not yet responded to the email Ben sent

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... through space and time toward to meet me. I think about how this year ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  inexplicable and pointless. ‘Why?’, Well, why not? I say". To avoid confronting ... of here.’ Why? I tried not to think about it. Commencement, a trip ... .” “Really? Ours was very small, not many people wanted to do it.” “That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015