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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at ... from your freshman year, and the first class on your hall that you ... works, what else can you do? Like The Blogfather said, the “fun and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake ... from sour cream and mushrooms. My personal take on the classic Russian ... it alone. and then the water ran out, because jacky was working on his

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

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

  

  robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building ... had stopped working, leaving a puddle on the floor and a collection of ... be? I miss MIT. I miss the community, the atmosphere, and the free Wi

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

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... have run a quick game, and then there should’ve been Meet the Bloggers ... Admissions and MIT students quickly put together in the span of a month. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... tripping up the stairs would be if you lost your laptop, and not just your ... common area for the night. However, common areas on campus and in labs are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best version of you that you can be. And if that place isn't the place for you ... last at MIT. Gosh kids can be mean. Unfriended them on facebook, got a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ’s rough buddy’ and what bender I would be, I caved. I started watching the ... -off (or the other way around; I only recall it being in succession), and ... was and that is the majority of his time on Avatar. Focus on three

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  can be cut up into a discrete number of triangles, and the area of these ... house H can be decomposed into the orange (O), purple (P), and blue (B ... pearls can have the same dihedral angle, sometimes by being on the same

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  want to Do The Thing and to convince others you can Do The Thing (MIT ... on GPA and extracurriculars than research experience (but it’s the ... should and could be. The field of biotechnology changed pretty

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  titled Excellent Sheep, has been mentioned a lot on the blogs, and is ... -centered frame based on BeaverCube’s position in orbit. By sensing the sun and ... , but I loved the work I was doing, and I decided to keep UROPing on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  convince you that the Hunt, like all puzzlehunts, can be studied and thought ... production and logistics. It's the same with media, which can be divided into ... ."]full-time job[/annotation]—and expectations can be high. A team that could win the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... had a similar idea, and both of us e-mailed the powers at be (Dave) and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  the thick of it, and glad to be there. I still can’t believe it started ... when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... between Addis Ababa and the countryside, or about what “being Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  dreams over the summer and I blame it on my subconscious being anxious from ... , a meal would be made and devoured. I signed up to be on the cook team ... because (depending on the FSILG) the facilities were better and the rent was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  stuff you can't work on aside from letting it fade from the collective ... , that that semester was the tip of my career and I'd never be able to ... place more value on more independent work, and on the experiences in

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

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... beginning of the school year, being away from all my friends and getting used ... farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  -junior year summer internships can be handy, especially if you liked the place ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the ... upwards slope, and I can see the experiences I’ve racked up, the projects

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  . Thank you for being selfless, resilient and kind. To the graduating ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Shakespeare. I picked the envelope off the ground, and re-read the name on the ... the first few pages, and stopped when I reached blue ink. There was a ... enough, on the second page, there it was: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  can be found here. 13. Cooking utensils and, depending on what dorm you ... knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be ... parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007