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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  recreational exploration."][/annotation] Bad Ideas is an annual tradition at MIT ... used on Saturday and the rest has since been distributed to other halls ... finished off at the Bad Ideas Ball held on Sunday night. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ? First: Mom, Dad, and sis are doing really well.  We’re living in ... , although you’re friends on Facebook. You have a lot of different friends now ... .  Loneliness is a type of grief, maybe. I can’t help but imagine you as little

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... create a system that lets them drive a go-cart. Now they're working on ... 's so much resistance in the lamp. If the lamp is on, it goes through the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... couldn't figure things out on their own. By second semester freshman year I ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  and it really shaped who I am today," 2) "Having spent all four years of ... ) explicitly on a silver platter. The most compelling essays I feel are those that sufficiently paint the picture for the reader, and then leave him on

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

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... ’m helping build a fort. I’ve experienced so many new and wonderful things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... friends wearing silly hats. Go on Nerf fights. Spend hours wandering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in ... one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life ... freshman year, every D or F on a test chipping away at the carefully curated

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  running the marathon. He told me it will help with the pain on race day, but ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... were parts when we immediately turn around on a station, or stay on a bus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... . The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on ... only time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  research, knowledge, and exploration is linked to its "technical rigor ... as substance. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on what MIT ... , lecturer, or affiliate on the chalkboard or print out a page yourself and add

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  admitted, and those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an ... join, fields you wanted to explore, dreams you wanted to realize ... . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  a la Vodka pasta prepared by Cait, and watched Nimona on an outdoor ... response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance ... bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... -bound females who perform well on SAT math also perform correspondingly well in ... otherwise equal intelligence, his conclusion based not on sexism but on

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... when even i feel like i'm on a roll and energetic and productive

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature ... also has the flagship store of Cereality, profiled today in a New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004