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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... a new movie every two years at best. 18.02 psets come out every week

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitching. I was part of a mass-layoff at work a couple weeks ago and have ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and

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

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  following: keep track of your stuff; learn your Athena commands; people at MIT ... the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  residents of Floor Pi. At one point, we were large enough that a team called ... screen, so you can look at the list of puzzles and view how far people are ... . Reading the text in the beginning of the puzzle hints at putting together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate

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

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  tamer: we sat down in front of our computers, stared at a spreadsheet, and ... , at the sort of point-of-no-return of the program, without a single ... talked about our mutual surprise at the large, large number of students who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  available. And now, a selection of various dishes I have made this semester at ... good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  , hiking, yoga, pistol, soccer, etc). Your major is declared at the end of ... is one of the most popular places to UROP at MIT. 2:33 -- Internships ... ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  recharge after a couple months of work, but at the end of the day I was still ... slightly embarrassing photo at the top of this post: all of the musical ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  't know exactly what level of celebrity we were dealing with here. At 1 ... DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically ... usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some

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

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'd show you my freshman year. I moved into one of the dorms at MIT thinking ... difficult math class at MIT), and a slew of other math courses. And to top it ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  at a lot of different styles of cuisine and experiment, you can get the ... , and marvel at your very adult portion of vegetables. [carousel image1 ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  juicy new details about the application experience. Here goes: Prologue ... physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012