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  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  roll of aluminum foil and covered the first pan as Rick stared on in ... whole lot of food: Teamwork at its finest! April browns the meat, Rick and I put together the cheese mix, and Rob (just visible in the top of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  finished at about 3 in the morning and spent the night with all of the ... first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate ... off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... me about 10% of the time, and when it did it felt great! Keeping up

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2 ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  the fact that I do listen to a lot of jazz, classical and instrumental ... judging from the radio play of "The Lazy Song," "Last Friday Night" and ... . "Nothing" by The Script: My little brother and I (aside from the whole Punch

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  that we'll do lots of case studies this semester too. Even in the first ... , one bake sale at a time. Our first bake of the semester is probably ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  of this class you will "definitely" be taking. And don’t question the ... Arts and then a copy to the one at MIT and audibly exhale a sigh of relief. Step 11: Go on with your day And so we did. The beginning of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... and less prepared for the actual first day of classes. This year, I was ... toothpaste out of a toothpaste tube. First, you draw a circle with it, and then

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... same, of course—the beanbags and squishables in the main lounge were gone ... doing problem sets in the main lounge, of study breaks and Mario

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early last month I made the terrible mistake of taking one of the 8am-10am

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  now. Be Social was one of my first blogposts and it was also the first ... space deeper and better understand the nuances of sorority life. And ... of the semester I told Raymond I still did not like his frat and that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  readers of the MIT blogosphere and all admitted MIT Quest Scholars, My name ... ? Why here instead of all the other schools?” And the answer I got back again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... of analyzing Brayton cycles and figuring out the delta s of compressor ... and taking a nap for the rest of the semester. Each project is quite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  find a jug of whole milk next to the half-and-half. Though I'm sure it ... day of MARC. While Hans took a nap and I wandered around the basement ... the game, put 200 in”, or “you got a crap load of nothin’!” And tell us

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  of town?”, strangers who smile. Soft jazz and yellow lights in the ... the ice and prepare for an hour of sounding silly in front of one ... My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  ) plays and joins the hunt every year in the spirit and name of "having fun ... School Math teacher, who is a part of the NPL and also started a mystery hunt for the HS. I took a lot of his classes and after I got into MIT, he

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  to our first away match of the semester on the 2nd and 3rd of February ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... the first week that I joined the team, and I did quite terrible. But I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  . A friend of mine and the co-chair of the Black Students Union (BSU ... Missouri, Yale University, and Ithaca College. For the first time since the ... burst and the real world slipped in — social media posts of personal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  not graduate?  Freshman spring was the first period of crisis. I had ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of bed, and being challenged not as much by psets as by the prospect of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... experience has expanded my outlook on life and the world. But first, I think ... backpack and two duffel bags and a whole lot of boxes and moved almost 2000

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006