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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  semester ends can do… things… to your sleep schedule. Also it was the weekend ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I ... along the ceiling that I use to hang coats and other clothes sometimes

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  , combined with [annotation note="To Simmons' credit, it has a 'social lounge ... cooking. It’s my personal opinion that even if you know how to cook a ... make meat the tenderest it can be. I didn’t know any of these things, so

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... younger Asian and Indian kids (I hate to specify race/ethnicity, but it was ... . They literally used to follow me around asking me odd questions. "How do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon ... our own research projects in grad school. But I'm going to take it ... it comes time to pick a grad schools. 2. The discipline I chose

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  over IAP. I have not taken a D-Lab class, so I can’t speak to it too ... program or grant to get you there. And it’s not just study abroad: there ... wanted to try living abroad, this is a good taste test because you can live

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  for a quick bite) and reassembled it here, only to discover that one of ... if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a robust, lively post. You can imagine that it was once inundated with much

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... that I was shocked. It’s something you really have to experience to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  essentially falling forwards the entire time it used to also be the case that i ... like to be you but you can probably ignore this post) 0. disclaimers ... hurt after a few minutes, you should probably only use it sparingly if at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  finances, it's always a good idea to save up any money you can. Application ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... 's an attempt to get my smarter peers interested in it so that they might

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  emails as well as I used to. Yet, it is hardly the worst thing that could ... still biting off more things than I can chew; it's a hard habit to kick ... an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  subsequent emails regarding the trip. We can always use volunteers from the ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and ... fun as one may have while getting away from campus for a weekend, it can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  you might know; I use it to keep track of non-regularly scheduled ... will have to, because i can't let this happen again. when i look at the ... , but my awareness of it doesn't make it go away. i desperately want to do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  , forgot half the holes and channels. You set to fixing it, blinking through ... down. The void then does not call, it screams: smash it. Just to see the ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  sure I'll do it. I'm excited! I've always wanted to learn French. ... During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of ... immersion that allows you to take the second level during the spring semester

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  : Your guidance counselor can send it via Naviance/Parchment, mail it to ... neither). Please look out for this message and respond to it quickly, so we ... mail it to MIT Undergraduate Admissions Processing Center, P.O. Box 404

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this ... workspace (although I rarely use it as one – I avoid doing work in my room as ... instead of a trunk with roots, so then I decided to turn it into a volcano

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  's talk about stuff so I can blog it." And, that's what this is. Ameer and ... much like harder it's been to be engaged in general Kellen: Yea, man. It ... 'm confused as to what day of the week it is lol. And there's like no end in

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on ... about twenty-five minutes. It seems like the right time to start an ... switched it to P/D/F, but it's okay - by the time I graduate, I'll have taken

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008