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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... no! He's not dead! He's still alive and quipping things like, "So I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  . False. I found my limits - pushed them, broke them, flailed about, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... on less, and if it had, I would always wonder whether I could have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , domestic violence, and miscarriage), you've made them real. They have lives ... it right. Best of luck to you all, and please feel free to email me ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  admissions director McGreggor Crowley) and answered questions from ... trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had ... application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Content warning: This blog post may contain terms that are considered sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real

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

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  ID does not give free entry. However, MITAC gives discounts! 35. and ... be a prefrosh during CPW and get free stuff - FACT: I have been ... free food is on campus so you get some variety and don't have to keep

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  free to add a section as your schedule and the size of that section ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  use a microwave, and still save money and time. However, a meal plan is ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... their experience with the dorm during REX and CPW. Watch the dorm i3

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  , I'll get any job I want, I'll make so much money, and everyone ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  arises, and to condition yourself to take the leap to pursue them. Whether ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... two hundred puzzles; the number's closer to 170. And our team doesn't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  taken. The term "hall feed" is still used today, in floorpi and other ... . "When she graduated she said she'd gotten [the refrigerator] for free, and ... we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like

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

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current ... "]reviews[/annotation] for my paper, and man they were [annotation note="alexa play 'brutal' by ... ’ve always known that results could’ve been improved and more evaluations

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  Tube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... this term, and so I really don't have any problem sets! Ever. Like, ever ... the concepts of work, education, and happiness. But in my busiest term

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’m into theoretical computer science, and applying algorithms to real ... station, and to get to MIT from the airport (for free!). We are not visiting ... , who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... than the amount of money we had in our bank account (and I wasn't eating ... happily better than ever. We've raised some money, hired new people, and we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  make enough money to fly home that semester and be with my family again ... Equations 18.100B - Real Analysis 8.02 - Physics II 24.118 - Paradox and ... condition where people hold unachievable expectations for themselves and then

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  delicious without taking tons of time and money. Come see (and eat) the kinds ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013