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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  who are good at doing things are not characterized by their ability to ... your 17-year-old self make decisions for your 21-year-old self. Not to ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  me was like, even if it’s hard, I would be able to make it if I work ... possible. All I need to do is make it through the class… Ah, sweet summer ... class.  I don’t think I was that right, however, about being able to make

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  the BlackLivesMatter movement, by making police brutality visible and ... by the hundreds from all over the US to join us as we occupied governor ... bias in decision-making and to detect and expose racism in housing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the spare pictures from last month that I had meant to blog and assembled them ... distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... picture I'm eating cake (white with buttercream, to be technical, because I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  ; it's super nice to see Boston by water. [caption id="attachment_55369 ... by a truck constantly so people have to wave at me wherever I go ... the island. We didn't make it to the larger side of the island that we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  dictated by the circumstances of one's birth. ????? You don't get to choose ... about 2016, then you probably know someone who is. Maybe you want to ... people's differences. CASE was founded and is run by MIT students and is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  , anything to make the administration run more smoothly. Except that the link ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  to find Terminal E, and jet lagged. By that night, I was bouncing with ... variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... decided not to continue playing their competitive sports after high school ... in shape year round. I never have to worry about voluntarily getting to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  . What makes me sad is when students focus on their studies to the ... available to them. And we make it clear that we want students to work with you ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... miraculin stays bound to our taste buds—fifteen to thirty minutes. The maximum

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  find a way to make it work! Otherwise, I plan to just spend my free hours ... banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat ... gone (they host one every year), so I didn’t really know what to expect

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  make mistakes, and to hell with whatever other people think of your ... thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021