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• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and ... , where he continues to study vision. This evening I Facebook chatted

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... I happened to find myself looking at - OH, WAIT! He just brought up ... physics classes and become exposed to new mathematical techniques and ideas

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... Admissions. But what we mean by match - and what match means to you - isn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very ... been rather silly to create a blog that no one would read. Nonetheless, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal ... Station and we headed over to campus to get all registered. The highlight

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... Things All International Students Can Relate To! You won’t believe number ...  rice with forks? How are you going to scoop it into your mouth? The default of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their ... year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... that playlist. @spotify wyd. This is relevant to you because algorithms

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Harvard Social Studies concentrators (i.e. majors), intended to prepare ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... comprehension and academic writing and research. For the final paper, I chose to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to ... photographic documentation to jog my memory. So without further ado, I bring you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... (cue airhorn noise)🎉🎉   As someone who loves to obsess over random, [annotation note = "Spotify Wrapped HATES to see me coming

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... pretty disciplined person, I have no self control when it comes to books

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... to pretty much anything, so if you’re still doing some last ... (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... nice personal touch / warm fuzzy feeling to the seemingly heartless process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012