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

  

  screaming for you in the stands of your final NCAA volleyball game, with your ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come ... in Maine with the Burton 3rd Bombers, who were so much fun to party

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

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  . I came home every day for lunch with the family, napped, ran, read ... topped with pecorino) with three of the teachers from the school, I said ... -lagged). I have been peeling back the curtains, checking for signs of light

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  for other departments) with questions about psets and/or life decisions ... letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... with me for the past year: that is, that becoming an aerospace engineer ... : 1. Take the candidate outside. 2. Wait for the familiar rumble of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , Christians. One has navy-blue hair. She plays the guitar and sings with a navy ... banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant ... . Activities bloomed throughout the day, with tasty food on standby for the ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... casual relationships right for them. Many people entering college do not have much experience with dating altogether, and dating in college can be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  what's up FROSH: just waiting for a burger ME: yeah those burgers are ... is my fifth ME: child FROSH: i felt bad for not eating vegetables ME ... FROSH: uh... ME: the thing with all the clubs FROSH: oh yeah ME: cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  , professors, research opportunities, funding for fun projects, massive career ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... there with a hundred or so other science fair people from across the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  /or the general [annotation note="we ended up going for a more playful ... into reality. If someone wanted to play around with the idea of including ... clever and fun to work with. They’ve become my ride-or-dies; we

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... runneth WAY over with elation, disappointment, relief, exhilaration

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to unsettle them as much as possible. While Urban Walcott urbanized with two

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  kitchen with smoke. so the smoke detectors went off and the fire alarm for ... fun, I recommend it with all my heart."]CI-H class final essay ... in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  with mints and cough drops just for you. Focus on the values of each ... .  Have fun with it! My Experience in a Sorority So, now that you know a ... with how this decision of joining a sorority has turned out for me. I am

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I ... for getting to see the view from the top. They ask for help, they ... top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  of rounds of reading and committee, with lots of different eyes looking ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... 2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023