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  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  your say, your body will silence 1 alarm, or 5 alarms. 10 if you really ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... uninitiated? How many hours can you commit? Experts suggest 6 to 10 per week

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  my parents or friends. Things like "I just got back from my 5.112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and ... equal to the height of Oliver Smoot ’62 (5 feet 7 inches), whose body was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10, whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... a break from my 5.111 problem set. I had dinner a few hours ago with

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

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  enjoyable occurrence during naptime. 5) An actual quote from Chris, upon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... libraries. 5. The probability that two bloggers who live next to each other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in ... up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from ... , this is all casual, but I think if you do even 10-15 minutes of thinking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  to Work 9:00–Arrive in Lab! Switch media for cells 10:00–Start treatment of cells 10:45–Induce necrosis with KCN 11:00–During the 5 hour ... experiment 5:30–All done. Time to leaveeeee The evenings are always pretty

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  bookmark hanging on the wall of Colin '10, since Colin '10 is like Sam's Mom ... on it. So I imagined that would have kind of been Colin '10's experience too. But anyway, when I told Dugan '08 and Colin '10 that Ina Garten

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , and walk away with $10 for themselves instead of only the $5 they'd get ... had a 2.5’ x 3.5’ whiteboard that served as a message board—something to ... at 11:59PM on April 5 (Friday). FAQ: What is this? Next Forum Games

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ...7. (or 9, or 10B)" HIM: "What do you want to do after you graduate ... -gritty of building something), incentivized me to switch from 10 to maybe 20 ... below the MIT Accepted Mean (3.71 vs. 3.73 - adjusted from MIT's 5 point

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  friends destress through acting or dancing or running 10 miles, but for a ... trying. this will take care of the "work" part. 5) you can always spare an

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Take a class in at least 10 different departments - 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 ... tremendously at MIT kept a regular 10 PM to 7 AM sleeping schedule all four years ... 'm serious. 10. Take a weekend trip to NYC - Chinatown bus. $15. Gets you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  airplane, it was almost exactly three months ago. I didn't know that 5 meant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  . Add carrots, tossing so they are mixed in evenly. Roast everything 10 ... evenly. Roast everything 10 more minutes.          Barley and Onions ... hulled version, 5.5 cups water to one cup for the other, cooking til water

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

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ) and add my DNA mix to each well. 5 hours, 37 deg C. 11:10 AM. I go back ... waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... !" out loud, and one of the postdocs gives me a strange look. 10:15 AM. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  class ring. Many of my friends carry $10 and $20 daily, while I get $5 on

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  for the animals.The pasture area accommodates 20 billion chickens, 1.5 ... production. For every 10 kilograms of grain we feed cattle, we get 1 kilogram of beef in return. The average US consumer today requires more than 2.5

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  all those excellent chart-formatting skills I learned in 10.26: Chemical ... and watched more old episodes of Captain Planet (5 AM weekdays on UPN ... Thursday night I actually had two problem sets to do, but they only grade 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007