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  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... , and then they brought out dessert. And it was gorgeous. A beautiful, sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... , which is quite cheery in contrast to this blog, but please do realize that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale ... I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany. Anyway, check back tomorrow for some info on classes and/or a map of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  to be, how do I know “who I’m not?” If you can’t tell, this was a very ... this is a refrain I’ve heard many times from many people at many ... be honest, it’s a message that I completely identify with. When I first

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  . I wasn’t doing much, just applying lotion twice a day and covering it ... on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable conditions, such as after a grocery shopping trip, a concert, or a Friday. One

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a prospective 2023’s message expressing hesitation about choosing MIT. I think a ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  States was hit by a devastating snowstorm this past weekend. The storm, which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  The Prudential Tower put on a special display for the New England ... without passing by a big red Crimson Tide banner or an Auburn Tigers bumper sticker. A very simple introduction to both teams: Alabama: Called the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  a time, so...you do the math. I ended up having to use two pans to ... Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... !! Yay!! Breakfast/Brunch I like eating two meals a day because of my sleep

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  . Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... order to decide who begins the debate. With a call of heads, Team ... for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  because we had nothing to do. I miss how a lot of different friend groups ... dad’s advice: just focus on one thing at a time, and do it. Focus on one ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a ... ramblings. A lot has happened in the past eighteen months. A pandemic closed the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  Period, where MIT people can do "whatever they want."']IAP[/annotation] has been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  really couldn’t have chosen a better neighbor school with which to do cross ... home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... year she was (a freshman, like me) and what her major was (she said

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and ... receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and try to log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... to a study: They found that 191 couples — 14.7 percent — were ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

   FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS ” -D.A. Twins 2/25/2018 (we imagine our words echoing after we throw them ... named. Then, at the end of a meeting of a club we’re all part of, we ... , Danny mentioned a conversation he had with Alaisha A. ‘18, who actually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018