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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , dapped up my brother, and walked out. Dapping is the unspoken form of our ... 't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the ... . Knowing these languages is what makes us who we are and is what connects us

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... has also been suggested that this difference in performance is in some ... objective science. And statistically speaking, he’s right. It is true that

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

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... make it have a height, and thus, the cube is born. You can also input ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone ... life. For those unfamiliar, cross stitching is basically textile pixel ... work hard enough at it. I love crafts and making things. See MIT Mech

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .” It all sounds so funny because MIT is one of those places where a lot ... 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

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

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . Now it’s your turn. Here is where Random Hall is: If you’re an MIT ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... barbeque and prizes for billiards and is mixing ice cream for the LN2 events

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this ... with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... , and an increased sense of affection for what is mechanically no more

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  is to "trust oneself completely to", and that when I committed to MIT I ... taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... outside of MIT is large, full of adventure and opportunity, so campus and ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had ...  the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  been placed with a traditional advisor (only advising) instead. but mit’s ... semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how ... need coming into mit. being thrown into the deep end of mit’s potential

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  MIT in one of my philosophy classes. How does it go? “There is no ... : Measure whether MIT is worth it. Don’t walk out that door. You’ll know ... Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the

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

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

  

  asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are ... preference): Stay in a dorm on MIT's campus. Last summer, MIT opened only ... dorms were either closed or being used by people in MIT's various summer

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

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

  

  desk at MIT (more frequently called IS+T) supports a number of different ... little thing called dormspam-the-game, an MIT-wide competition with 452 ... charming, despite his obsession with the color [annotation note="whitney is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018