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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  which I attended in 2018 and was a counselor for in 2019. Along with a ... bonds. We do our best anyways, with fun social events and casual hangouts ... we provide a comfortable space for people to engage with us and with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  school process. In the meantime, feel free to email in with any questions ... - particularly since, with the AMCAS (med school app) coming out this Tuesday, I ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• 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 ... student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for ... keep quiet, and some people send their victims threatening emails with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very ... struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two questions have the same answer. When I arrived as a freshman, I signed up for ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  information she was given prior to signing up for recruitment, she found that ... lasted most of the day for several days as people had conversations with ... his father’s and grandfather’s association with Kappa played a factor

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... things. I found it again this morning and curled up outside with my coffee

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday ... had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... ironic that this huge, 100-plot cemetery is filled with French aristocrats ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  print for writing-centric high school classes like US Government and Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just ... sample. -- 1) People love Indian food and/or frozen

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  Training.  During your sophomore year, you apply for a slot to go to Field ... me with additional options for expanding my skills that are only ... selected for the coveted pilot slot during their junior or senior year, that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... "acquaintance with good literature". For literature, the catalog lists a whole ... been waiting for! This is the first catalog we've seen with explicit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  . Sidequest 9: Build a thing. I built (with a LOT of help) a shelf for my loft ... with all my final exams for the semester and had been admitted into my ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  full of returning student resources; some even snag free Frisbees with ... September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play with in class: ^a Form1+ we used in 2.008.  Yay MIT alum companies

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... pursuing both gene editing and bioethics with funding for both. I had always ... through an initial round of review at some places My advice: Aim for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  "]reviews[/annotation] for my paper, and man they were [annotation note="alexa play 'brutal' by ... 've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... inopportunely aroused the '93 men from their slumbers with the gentle strains

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015