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  The One and Only Melis

  

  that I'd try to narrate her story by myself, but I soon realized that ... . My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  of waiting and not knowing, and want to get back to you as quickly as ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... sufficiently incredible bakers and chefs to make some pretty darn incredible ... The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the [annotation

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  like to play. I thought I'd make a little post today about the music and ... beginning of my foray into cooking. I learned how to make my mom's chili (and ... ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in-the-world-by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any ... small failures. a single bad recruitment cycle goes by, maybe because of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  with MIT's mission to make the world a better place. We deferred ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'm starting early so I can have time to make my decision and figure out a number ... 'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone call from Procter and Gamble alerting me to the fact that I had an

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big ... : sprinkled between running in to make sure everything was running all well ... —usually after lunch to make sure people on observing duty can sleep a bit—we go

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  burn unit, but this just goes to show that any and all mistakes you make ... the airport, which assures a good time to be had by all. Waites (UGA ... to me. You'd think by the number of "Protect Families: Ban Homosexual

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  animation will play over it! That semester, we both got to make our own murals ... -AR chairs, teaching anyone who wants to learn, how to make their own AR ... ’t wait to see this tower built collaboratively by members of the MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  's being empathetic or supportive or trying to make small choices that make ... forward to making new friends and pseudo-families with whoever happens to ... – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  intense, it refused to be subdued by the iced tea I picked up - although ... 'm not knocking Nutella by any means - I'm going to try to find their ... I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  happened and to walk exactly the way you’re used to, even if doing so makes ... , so i was able to relearn walking by paying careful attention to how my ... reincarnation. when a species has the ability to escape wear and tear by

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  feels even worse, making it a vicious circle. When it comes to the ... motivation. Maybe if I make it easier to do oral care, I'll do it more. Sleep ... makes me feel like I actually want to have sex. And sometimes it feels

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  monument, listening to "Things Fall Apart" by ayokay on repeat to the ... back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... spending the night frantically studying in a Green building lounge, fueled by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  decide to do something for pleasure for more than the two weeks that makes ... IAP I’m proving to myself that I’m serious about it by actually ... wish I could make sense of it both to myself and others. Someone got

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to ... your pset that's making you cry. To the identity crisis, I think there ... and find new things to identify with and define yourself by, which I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  yearlong pause. To make up for this bitter disappointment, we’re moving ... portion of the changes we were hoping to make with the big move. Oh – and we ... endlessly on the wisdom of making choices that will lead to equally unknowable

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020