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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... access to Arab satellite television was cheap. Some of the channels weren ... make a total of [annotation note="to be fair, they do taste really good

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to ... Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as ... of this,” I thought to myself as I clenched everything ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... priorities vary from one institution to the next. The methods employed to ... to the concept of fairness, and enrolling the desired class.  Chris

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water - the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... simply wasn’t enough time to come to terms with it.  It was hard. All of ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... bought some coils of wire to be our springs, labeled appropriately with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... of my inbox right now, parties, house meetings, and foodmobs to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement ... , there’s an increase of typhus/typhoid infection due to the rain and river

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... being able to channel all of my aggression and anger out of my body and ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... we chose to admit included 15% of those who scored within the 750

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to the direction of the sword, which reduced the force of my blows ... -ended nails that hold pieces of metal together. They are very hard to forge ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023