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

  

  was that. I ran maybe 4 or so of these games and people seemed to like ... to reach all of campus to publicize events, clubs, fun polls, or start ... players chose to place a large portion of their points in one or two

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

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  , or collecting a large set of people named Josh to fight for the right ... pride flags around, is there some kind of event or something?" "Yeah, it ... point of coming out is to try and be the person you truly are, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... using the other bathroom closest to my room, which is an entirely normal ... . MEnging is not at all what I thought it would be—which isn't to say that it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... , if you’d like to keep on reading, you’ll be able to find many of my ... , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on ... identical one being demoed here. To use it, a roll of music programmed on ... the cart and up the stairs to my room on the second floor. I did most of

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

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  , which is presumably the precursor to the School of Engineering and School ... the war, half of which went to research. Catalog format. The catalog is ... "that dining hall on the second floor of the Stud", which is where lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of this list, which is actually different from year to year - if you ... free food on campus, but for a whole week is actually kind of hard to do ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  benefit of being able to stay for an entire year, or more, depending on your ... jamming to whatever song is playing now, or listening to the sounds of ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... something that's better than what used to be there before (which in my case ... academic career is leagues better now than it used to be. So when you get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... rather than through individual initiative on the part of the student, or ... to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... . Which is why I'm still declared as a 6-3 instead of switching to 15 ... every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or ... art, mason jar full of lemonade (or cold-brewed iced-tea, depending on ... each case, I also open what we call the "eFolder," which is a PDF of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  did. But how much of that is MIT? Or is it just me choosing to be a part ... radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... I want to do in the future” was only on my mind because of my parents

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  humanities field is CMS, or Comparative Media Studies (which is a really broad ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wasted on the Internet. A Tang is a measure of orthogonality to normal ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  't Start the Fire", to East Campus's modern mascot (as of 2003), which is ... strangers. 167 posts are up on the site, which is now closed as a kind of time ... the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  ’t work, or is inefficient. Maybe you spend a lot of time doing problems you know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... BOSTON! People travel thousands of miles to visit what is literally across

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011