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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Making the sauce: Bring some the stock to a ... . The Sauce Melt butter, stir in flour to make a brown roux. Add veal ... diced mushrooms to make a mushroom sauce. Add marinade from the sous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you play. Play a tournament for bragging rights, or make a fool of yourself ... make everyone's favorite impossible-to-eat food, ice planets! 20

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... them, I promise :)))) what makes a study spot attractive? I started by ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... cites an example that equates choosing a class to putting together a group ... . So I will try a few different examples. If one is going to select a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... to “become sophomores”, allowing them to declare a major, be assigned a ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you ... the hurricane will herald a turbulent fall semester to come. https ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to U.S. News & World Report, which makes a habit of knowing these ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  means that it’s difficult to make broad claims about having a single ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  joy, maybe connection. It's a feeling that makes you want to experience ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him ... issues, so you need to make sure she doesn't eat anything too fatty. Dog 1 ... , Dog 3 only wants to eat food that a human is holding even though she

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... Chris Peterson launched a project to highlight MIT's committment to ... the MIT Archives. A special thanks to the Archives staff! MIDDLE EAST

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the classroom I passed a girl from among my soon-to-be audience. We made eye ... grandfather, who was very, very dear to me, emphasized to me that there is a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT ... or Drawphone or Skribbl. We could hop on a call and sing off-sync to ... , with a C. We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective? ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011