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  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... follows the same schedule, here is a look back on last Friday. 8:37 - My ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I start the post, I write a few sentences, and then within a day or two, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... a class (Harmony and Counterpoint I) and added another class (Harmony ... obscene expensiveness of staff paper* and made a pear salad and harmonized a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just ... Boston has a bunch of random little quirks about it that nobody but a ... mentioned a couple of songs. I believe her words were: "If you're going to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and ... ; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year ... classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  Sometimes, I receive e-mails from prospective students. I posted a batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... seriously considering it as a career path. However, I don't know whether I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or ... if by correcting our mistakes. It's a nice feature. Tuesday: I had a 7 ... wondering. Wednesday: The weekly 18.310 problem set was due. It had a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I ... me some credit, people - I'm not that big of a nerd, although I do ... my window at work and my window at home.) Last September, I started a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  - Debt Capital Markets (DCM) Where? NYC Details: I get to work on a ... Oregon for an outdoor-sy family vacation. Anything else? I've run into a ... . note: Yes, he is a boy. And he is a boy who gets to hang out with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and ... years, I've found myself traveling quite a lot. I've flown to London every ... the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a ... very appealing. Maggie: I actually had a phase in high school where I ... involved in a school newspaper with fellow engineers and scientists, not

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... . But given the speed of the water coming down a slide and the speed of light, this seemed a little hokey. Besides, after crashing into the bottom

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006