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  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  Today. I. Joined. Quidditch. The awesomeness is still sinking in ... as an observer, but soon got caught up in the magic and was flying (er ... volunteered to dress in gold and play the snitch. The snitch is allowed to run

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  over our footsteps and shouting in an otherwise silent and uneventful ... his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... anymore. Then he asked what I dig. "Blues," I said, "born in New Orleans

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  way, the important information will be conveyed in the interview report ... in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... , Shannon '05.) To help diffuse the very high level of stress in the room

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... , pressure washing everything in sight, replacing windows, emptying stores of ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... , if at all. I was lucky if I knew half the words in the title. Sophomore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... , a bed spontaneously appeared in the student lounge off of the Infinite

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ="http://www.youtube.com/user/MITmarchingband">YouTube Channel</a>.</p> <p>This is, in fact, the 30th anniversary ... spelling mistakes like the one they mentioned in the article.</p> < ... player on the left in this photo:</p> <p><img src="http

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... different people, toward a different goal, in a different place, and at a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... test in a different mood”, which to me highlights a key flaw in any kind ... to “better manage” people in workplaces or worse, while hiring people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then ... this as many times as you can until you start to feel better and more in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I ... you passed. What I've noticed, both from the comments in the admissions ... got a C in physics/chemistry/biology/math Parents will label these as

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... firehose. In reference to this came the adjective hosed, meaning bogged down in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: where in minnesota are you from FRIEND FROM ... sing ME: music * * * FROSH: so what do you major in ME: aerospace ... ME: let me take you to shallow goodale ME: the best salon in boston

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... published in Popular Science and friends who build something amazing and ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though ... your own essays, you’ll just fill in the gaps of information that someone

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009