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• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... distracting herself by marathoning a TV show (possibly Firefly, again), playing a video game, or goofing off with friends to listen. If you want some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... then this is a CI (communications intensive) class, so that’s to be

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... the closest you can get to living in the Internet," and Ms. Chinea ... admissions office has been so ready to welcome uncensored student writing. "A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... lead to a collision. Bathroom exits have stop signs too. If you are traveling with a group, do not, under any circumstances, use all four lanes to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving ... could, who a lot of people hated, just happening to die by mosquito bite ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by ... to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  in a team with an MIT alum as a mentor to work on our teamwork skills ... -Wednesday from 9am-5pm, so it did get a bit tiring, but the coordinators surely ... , across the dormitories.  Last semester, I tried to bring a prefrosh into

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... wonderful conversation I was lucky enough to have with a doctor I met when I

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  recommend getting materials to us by early February, and Midyear Grade Report ... feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... I'll get to it soon. ------------------------------------- M.D. wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... ’ve had a lot of successes (at least judging by how quickly my cookies

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  someone to just know me already and get past all of that and exist in a way ... that year and then suddenly float off, a big "fuck you" to the person who ... is a terrible pit of fear that it is not going to work, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... doing all he could to get her to eat the thing burning in his hands, which ... ! Unfortunately, it is rare for a recipe to involve all three elements like this one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... order to collect blood. and then it flashed to a shot of lobby 7. the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a ... Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving project has to be the gravy fountain: what's more excessive than a giant pie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... and i didn’t get much of it 🙁  humanities classes -- learned a lot :D ... concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack ... Conner 2? Wow, and there you were thinking that it was a prerequisite to be a blogger by now, what with these three cool people living there.) We

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  the communities I’m now a part of are beloved to me, but I definitely ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... me, sounding like a college confidential parent) 5. Not going to class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  to a thrilling jazz concert performed by our own FJE and a local jazz ... rainforest research. First, we listened to a few talks by VJE’s Talia K. and ... scorching hot, and a few of us even pulled out our umbrellas to shield

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  weeks" or "Get rid of that chub ab exercises". I would go to my room every ... and a feeling of cowardice and defeat. When I finally came to college ... , in fact, need to eat a lot in order to gain muscle and see results. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Arts Hacking Arts is a festival and hackathon that aims to create new ... between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014