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

  

  terms you may hear in college. It also may reference emotionally or ... ", referring to hookup culture or the general idea of casual relationships ... conservative family. I did not "date" at all in high school; it was more or less

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  community member. Here I'll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a ... (or avoid) what we've learned. My take is that CMS is about tinkering ... has their own collection of interests, like comic books or live

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  huddled with a small mass of other students. It was Day 1 of Beginner ... light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... ? Nope. Swim requirement was a thing. And one way or another, I would have

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  started work/research the next day! Sounds exhilarating and somewhat ... for MIT students who are considering spending one or two semesters ... all times! It’s supposedly really similar to MIT’s 7.20J Human

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day ... , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... determinative or merely descriptive? And so forth. But let's back away from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  for everyone else I emailed.[/caption] Josh replied after a few days ... was, and still is, the room of floorpi's Graduate Resident Advisor, or ... days later, Josh replied after doing some digging of his own: I had a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... ." I don't remember what I said to the "Team Edward or Team Jacob ... gajillion hours writing every post, paranoid that it would be "bad" or not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  : Samuel Maurer's Day Off Good story, right? 5 months after this entry was ... negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... Provenza = “madness” Matt Kirshen = “redundancy” Scott Adams = “1 degree

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  policy. I have a 2GB per day allowance, and if I go over this limit I pay 1 ... 1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011 ... ever exchanged with Spencer, the day after we admitted him in March of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  you have before. [embed]http://youtu.be/JJMYZUh1PRQ[/embed] A week ago ... a complex or mysterious person. I also rarely feel misunderstood. It ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... . (v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if ... ," or other "MIT-y" answers (although they also definitely won't penalize

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  's true. That said, it doesn't sound very helpful, or even convincing, but I ... made me eat a really terrible burrito against my will (or something ... , or worse still, raising the possibility that the agonizing wait would

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a ... that was my senior schedule, or Simon Cowell was in my brain going "That ... where my advice to you, or my answer to this question, runs short - the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , and after a few days, I get an interview. A day or two after that, I get ... to us if CPW is canceled or if it is just the CPW events with too many ... an emergency meeting the next day. We're still thinking of different

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... . When I was taking 6.01, there was one day where I was hosed beyond belief ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  , however, the situation was obvious. I was bi, or, at the very least, out of ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly ... still knew that queerness invited violence, and even holding hands or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... this past Saturday, on the evening of the Old New Year’s Day. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for ... few days is one of your first big decisions. Some very intelligent ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019