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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... trivial things, like "Does orange plaid match with a floral green print?" or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... lab assignments with their own designs if they put in some extra work ... board with my plan. The only problems were that they had never done

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  Adults (if that wasn't already expected of us to begin with). Just ... embassy.  If you receive an email with the subject, " ... Course 2, and you are reminded that you're dealing with the Swiss, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with ... sketches help me experiment with different narrative formats and replace the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , so I learned Shanghainese from being with her). When I first went to ... ’s culture a lot, and would go to school with or seek out other kids like them to play with. At that time, I felt there were only these two types, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to ... of a lot of my coziness, especially the food, with intrusive photos by

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

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  . That’s 60 left. 12 for movies with friends. 12 for meals, 14 with eating ... stapling the pages of psets together with a precise corner shot. I love laughing with my friends all the way home after the assignments are safely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... an undergrad wanted to talk with them. Dr. Ocneanu, who is still one of my favorite professors, chatted with me about math and life for hours

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... with a coffee table. I planned out the shape and size over IAP and bought ... live in an apartment with some EC friends, who all lived on slugfest in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may ... my own experiences with rejection, waitlists, and more, as a part of ... honest with you, things haven’t been all sunshine and roses. Maybe some of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... with bated breath for an entry that never came. And by tens of tens of ... you did, twenty three years ago!) Two, because I hung out with a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun ... exam, I was already anxiously discussing my answers with fellow

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping ... to the troubles in life, comparing problems with the weather, as ... too shall pass". But that doesn't carry with it this implicit comparison

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... ) approximately how to deal with different classes of foodstuff and b) how to combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... specific lengths, or make a cube with slightly different inputs, but the idea ... get creative with scaling i guess, but that would change their position

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  'm gonna roll with it. Once your “I just got into MIT!” high school senior self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  Wednesdays ago nothing happened. The next day I went out for ramen with some ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends. The next day nothing happened. The next day I had dinner with some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... inopportunely aroused the '93 men from their slumbers with the gentle strains ... ." Students in the new dorms retaliated with streams of four well-directed fire

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015