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• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  be eggs and veggies, but I forgot to get eggs, so it was in fact just ... Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... I also get excited (really, really excited) by writing, social media ... caused by a fire sprinkler, something that’s supposed to protect against

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  get. I won’t have new grades by Feb. 15. What do I do?? Ya still gotta ... the FUN form to tell us a joke. :) What if I submit by FUN form and ... as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to ... didn't know then how to train myself to get stronger -- honestly, I feel ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college ... 've loved my UROP so much - I get to make a thing, test it, and write a paper ... management, when in reality I just wanted to connect wires by myself in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  accomplishments, it’s about the messy paths and missteps taken to get there ... , and just get to know each other. In the last 1.5 years, I met ... the right questions to get to know someone better. It just used to come

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... 'd like to meet anyone who ends up buying one of these. By posting these ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT ... this book. Roth can really write, and I want to get acquainted with some ... was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  shock patterns... by the time we headed back it was starting to look like ... never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  people tend to overestimate their unhappiness about not getting a job, as ... phenomenon by which we return to stable levels of happiness in spite of major ... student's initial reaction to getting into Yale versus their current

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... put into them (almost). I hear it gets even better as you go along--which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... Association (the MIT Sailing Club) and their families only, you can't get much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  blogger who wrote it, or the general information pages accessible by the ... Match - you don't just get the Admissions Office's view of things...you get a student's perspective as well. Nonetheless, there are currently

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  Course 9 majors, with a heavy systems neuroscience focus. You get to play ... a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  nights, it feels like i’ve sold my soul to get to mit. not in the sense of ... the world, not by far, not by a long shot. i just have to tell myself ... 't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  hanging out the bus, yelling at us to get our attention. It’s another man ... them by the heads and shake them like ragdolls and tell them to shut UP ... only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  popularized by the 19th century impressionists like Claude Monet due to the new ... painting, the hardest part was accumulating the activation energy to get ... allow me to add the smallest details by building up layer after layer, but

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025