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  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  It is Thursday, November 23rd. Or well, it is as I’m writing this ... students at MIT, I’m not at home for this Thanksgiving. I won’t be eating my aunty’s pumpkin crunch desserts or my grandpa’s kalua turkey, I won’t be

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  with some basic Google Sheets statistics, I teased out that each column ... [annotation note="literally, I got about eight hours of sleep total that weekend ... was my first hunt! I was dragged into the hunt by Shuli, and so I hunted

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... Year! I spoke with one of his UROPs, Shan Tie ‘10, who said she found the lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the many, many comments I've received the past few days: On Monday I got ... , which, it turns out, is probably not as scary as you think it is. So I got

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about science than usual but more about relationships and who I am. It was a bit painful at times, but there were also many great things. I caught glimpses

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending with her. Scrolling through the original message, I saw a comment that "Dudamel is cool." So, even though I had no idea whether Dudamel was a music

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ). Though I admittedly spent way too much time googling “what is the ... compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... mind when I think about picking interesting courses and more broadly, a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  actually made a blank google doc. I guess I have been afraid that when I ... I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I love knowing that I’ve said something I couldn’t say before and feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... vicious cycle. The telethon is a fun tradition that I think brings a really ... process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a ... ’s also teach abroad, work abroad, research abroad, and more. I figure it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  have to take my word or Google's word for it, since I forgot to take ... Since I'm returning to blogging after quite the unplanned hiatus (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  and a little bit of googling to jog my memory. I hope you enjoy. I ... my preferred method of decoration. I've covered pretty much every wall of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  've, i dunno, complained with sections separated by numbers and everything ... : … cj: this is my blog post. i'm the interviewer. i'm the one in charge ... yourselves first. it's only polite. dan: fine. i'm dan. i'm cj's depression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  . http://web.mit.edu/slp/involved/leadership.shtml Student Government The ... amazing students who took the initiative to launch projects at http://web ... , and classes aimed at developing and honing leadership skills. http://web

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  not, and i do some frantic googling and hydranting. i crash back into ... wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  from, and I even have some tips on how to use them effectively. First ... years. I happily spent many hours freshman year building out possible ... , where I carefully planned out various double major combinations, none of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I ... deckbuilding roguelike that I've poured over sixty hours into. If you can't tell

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021