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• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  Update: although Pilot 2021 was canceled, I'm leaving the section about it ... a dining hall. I strongly believe that you shouldn't pick a dorm based ... me: I cannot cook. I had a meal plan during the first semester of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  dumplings” and “trash” and I end up using a pinyin keyboard and Google Images ... before defaulting to my usual “pinyin and Google Images” tactic. I give up ... traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  -3 friend requests per week from prefrosh. To this date, I have accepted ... I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  taught me: all that I have to be grateful for. I've got a great set of ... , professionally, academically, and personally; and more than anything, I am having such a great time here. My name is Kenny Lam, and I'm a current

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip ... rent the car for two hours and split the cost between four people. I think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... three-day weekend per month during term, and sometimes a four-day weekend ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always ... reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  applicant (i.e. Google his or her name, look at his or her Xanga or user ... Before I go off on vacation today, I wanted to answer as many questions as I can. It's a long entry! Before we get to that, though, I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  installation of a web server. I worked for two hours before hurrying over to the ... , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an entire school day. How have I achieved this? It all started with my alarm

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help ... it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of ... from many different states with many different characteristics. I sit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  ="alignleft" width="762"] flights climbed per day[/caption] I originally arrived to ... Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  safari. She also insisted I begin a web journal which sounded like a simply ... 'Allo poppets!! Sir Nigel Archibald Blogberry here! Marianne and I ... on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I be so lucky!?" Well thanks, I'm flattered. Anyway, that's enough ego

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice cream. I'm not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  out internships on my own. I mainly just Google'd some generic phrases ... I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell ... year, Boston.I decided it was finally time to experience the real thing

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  Man, it's been a while since I last blogged. I've been a bit hosed, to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the Navy. The good news is that I now know what I'm doing after I graduate

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already ... . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about ... -of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  years ago." Heh. While googling Holmstrom for this entry, I found this ... On Friday, I attended a Undergraduate Economics Association(UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006