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  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Okay guys, you did get me on the whole immaculate conception ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  beautiful 36% on my first 6.01 exam, that was fantabulous***. Of course, it ... and March. There were a lot of emotional things going on at MIT, and in ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  building. These people are underestimating the power of a kitchen. On 5th ... background. Some of the Cultural Houses in New House have a sort of middle ... Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I've been eating well, and the schoolwork hasn't affected any of my habits

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and ... , however, 17.901 requires solely 6 hours of research. On Wednesday, my ... 17.S914 Conversations in You Can’t Have on Campus. It’s 2 hours of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... : Wing It - $9 In one week, I'd spent $61 on food. This does not even ... spend almost $1000 on food when I should be saving up for my senior trip

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  an embodiment of modern consumerism and globalism. Here, you can go on ... the music from speakers on the other side of the river. The River ... Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  've been watching a lot of Phil's new videos, but what I've really been ... check YouTube for a new Dan and Phil video. I really also enjoy a lot of ... streams, and so on so forth. I also watched a lot of CSGO highlight reels

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  unreasonable amounts of time on something is a classic IAP move. In IAP mindset ... from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year, full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  docks and benches to chill on, but if you're more of an active person, the ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  went on an expedition around MIT and into Boston:   Photo ... on this blog! Coming from Colorado, the weather itself actually wasn ... call it (my super Asian mother has always placed a high value on both qi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  go on your transcript or not. My point is, you meet a lot of cool new ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... numerals -- On some forms and posters, people refer to their course (major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... new vigor and confidence in learning actual CS things. I'm really proud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  hearty replacements. feast your eyes on this $7 bowl of Yamo House ... of rowing, focused on conquering will rather than body control. It ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  seminars on Special Relativity, Gyroscopes, and the Physics of Flight ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends ... minor purchases. Don’t drag a mound of erasers and rulers on a plane, but ... pillows. Not on your first week of college. -- chairs, bean bags, and other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015