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• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  the situation all wrong. I tried to make a second story by lofting a ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... I can’t bring my laptop or a book to bed unless I want it to fall out

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  pretty black one, also for $8. I worried for a while that, unbeknownst to me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... to light a clove cigarette as Brian '08 looks on. It was a huge cake

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  -sweet BBQ sauce that makes me want to weep honeyed, tangy tears of the same ... usually makes this dish so texturally addictive. Not bad, could use a few ... dress of cumin, cilantro, and Sichuan pepper. Trying to relive a bite of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... sailing, suffered two blows to the head from a wayward mast, pretended to ... . Say I had to limit my inaugural entry to a mere 6 hours of my time on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  offer me right now. I don't know how to explain this without making a ... so much...only to return to a house that does not feel like a home ... loudly. And being back home makes me feel like I have to quiet all of that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an ... , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video ... Program," a way for Livescribe to have people distribute pens, run demos

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of ... camera around to show Tim's MIT shirt as everyone runs into a pie ... . We had a lot of cleanup to do... The geese on Killian helped! For

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science ... . This is a popular space for student organizations to advertise events ... heritage with the VSA – it's great to have a place where I can eat familiar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  of a big deal around these parts, and wouldn't you know, it happens to ... fools and I make up the 2012 RingComm. We have been seeing each other a ... each class's Rat are chosen by a Ring Committee, or "RingComm," a group

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  usually travel on a daily basis, I want to cover as much as I can. I want to ... a place to me over the past semester/several months: even though it is a great place to be, it's lost its magic and wonder that I'd once held

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  even something better. Fast forward a couple months to Fall semester after I'd committed to studying abroad... I don't think I've ever had a ... labs/reports and also an individiual project where I needed to make 40

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  worked for several years as a consultant. We also compared her work to an ... time to understand how they function. Her research seems like a mix of ... empower kids, parents, policy makers, and others to make better decisions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -term thinker rolled into one. Thanks to a Concerned Proactive Mentor, I had a ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... to lose? My mentality was probably coming from a place of extreme self

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll ... Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... have to tell the truth. Your room doesn't look like a 'I could be an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... hear a lot from non-MIT people and prospective students. In order to understand the answer, it's necessary to understand a little more about dining

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  if I wanted to join a teaching innovative that he founded. Big Dreams ... be used to maximize happiness, called Gale-Shapley. Here is a picture ... was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... stalking him visiting his office. But then the universe decided to throw me a bone. Though he's not teaching a classes this semester, he decided to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a ... . Master all the steps to the Cupid Shuffle. You'll be a hit at prom. Go

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019