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

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  realize how well the movie is done - it’s very faithful to the book, which ... ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  '. [T]hat was one of their defaults." A poster from The Oatmeal, "How to ... historical research, and how I present this research to readers. I find myself wanting resources about writing histories that aren't just "how to write a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , and how exactly this relates to the emphasis on science here I wouldn ... think about how it would have been to be a woman at MIT when only 5% of ... from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not ... , okay...not all of us, myself included, actually know how to log off and ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  say. They answer, “So should we.” You don’t remember how to sleep. You ... .002. Someone wonders how to hook up an op-amp. The op-amp works without a voltage ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  live, and I wanted to find out how they did so. [...] For this project ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  didn’t have the words to express how I felt, but looking back at that ... feeling to have. I had no idea how much room my shame was taking up until I ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  (contractors and workers) who were familiar with how to construct this system ... this project was to try and see how long the water source would last ... don’t know how to do this” (I literally knew nothing about water before

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... , dreamy tone people usually use to describe things like “winning the lottery ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... sometimes referred to as boston. the city itself is often called boston proper"]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges

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

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... knowing how to swim. —anonymous learning to swim from a swimming pool. "You

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  'm super happy with how the project went, and it's satisfying to see this ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  adolescence. At a time where my peers were beginning to learn how to navigate ... ’t learn how to code. We learned how to use Excel and the rest of the Microsoft Suite"]I already know how to use a computer >:([/annotation] is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• 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?!

  

  rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship ... alike were left wondering how the vehicle had managed to find its way to ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014