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  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  . Yesterday I overcame yet another longtime fear and gave blood. I couldn't help ... World, or what I imagine Boy Meets World would have been like if I had ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  , and is a crazy thrifter (he actually has the craziest finds i've ever ... simple it is. I make it every week or so for my family in the evenings and ... into sorbet. I feel like at this point, you would start to wonder if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  trouble following these tips, I recommend reading CMU / Parallel Universe. It's a great example showing everything I'm talking about! 1. Begin ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  sunny weather for this week. I should preface this by saying: I love CPW. I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much from them as I could before I started my own venture. Then on late ... over will be there." So, I made a mental pro's and con's list:  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don’t know falsettos or crescendos or if the two are even related, but I know that whatever they are, I love listening to them. I admire music and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: What do I do ... to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  bubble up during Finals Week. By “antics,” I mean something as innocuous as ... a California area code. Further sleuthing, by which I mean picking up ... roommate's uncle. Even further sleuthing, by which I mean opening the box

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  As you may already be aware, today is Ben's birthday! I won't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  Wow, that last post was short. I didn't even tell you what I'm doing ... microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus ... -making supplies, which I am a HUGE fan of), a soccer field (and team!), a very good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM - I wake up. Come on, there was a party ... there involved minimal effort. If I could cross campus for a Baker party ... pure laziness. 2:02 PM - Brain function starts returning. Hmm, I have two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say "finally" because I'm pretty sure I actually bought the book at the MIT Press

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  rockstar. Hawk Cam Have you guys seen the hawk-cam yet? Funny story - I ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... . :-) Reason #261 That I Would Live In EC If They'd Let Me Because they build

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next apparently represent the largest college applicant pool ever nationwide. As I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my colleagues attended. It was fun, crazy, and ridiculous all at the same time. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  [annotation note="I'm also aware that administration is actively trying to ... sense of spatial planning.[/annotation] As much as I don't want to admit it, I do want these "superficial" things for comfort and vibe

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  ….. groupA>>groupB. I quite obviously fall into group B (the second half of group B, I thought I had convinced my parents that grad school would be cool, but they recently found that MD/PhD is a thing, so I still

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I don't write this entry now, when I have so much time on my hands, this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008