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  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... getting in were, or who posted their very high SAT scores and then asked if ... who get in vs. the ones who don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  theory”-esque challenges run by anonymous gamemasters and $749 in prizes ... "]he didn’t believe me[/annotation] and then found my number in his contacts. I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... books was like eating REALLY GOOD CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM, in that you skim off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  In Matt's recent entry about the movie 21, he mentioned that he found ... forgo the opportunity to decorate their room - especially in dorms like ... on my floor, Burton 1, all decorated in such a way that creates a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are ... -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... cap-and-gown thing with the 2018s in june. as far as endings go, the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I

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

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to literally look up the last word in the dictionary, but decided that "zymurgy" was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• 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?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... which one it is. The example scenarios in the problems grow increasingly ... sun starts rising and stops again. There is a sketchy f---er in the EC

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... . In my experience, individuals from multiracial backgrounds resented ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have no problem with polo shirts, and in fact own several) Every Monday

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ?" That's when I knew that decision fatigue had set in early this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -day party before term starts when frosh find their home(s) at MIT, in every ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of ... outlined in blue frosting. Burton 5 sits on couches and windowsills, leaning

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015