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• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  The Putz-Tetazoo exchange program is a longstanding tradition where a ... from the tap!! Absolute heathens. Putz not only puts the 'best' in asbestos, but also the 'hard' in hard water. My shock did not end there

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  ) and don’t tell me that’s not posh. Anyways, I scribbled the following ... . Dunstan in the East Church Garden).  I think there is a quiet resilience to ... is “plant” (pronounced like “plang-nt”). I’m not a linguist, but I bet

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  months. And then, at the end, a final. This class is not a particularly ... may understand the next question and not feel dumb. Unfortunately ... and a half. At MIT the equivalent course is 18.01. It takes 3 months. If

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  from there. Finally, some tips: It is not true that the price, time ... rice cooker. This is the rice cooker I have. There is only one switch ... is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  to use it. the procedure for running Artemis is fairly automated so I ... exposure times. the way Artemis works is that you write a small operating ... the song Amplifier (??), which was not on my bingo card for Tenerife

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  you what a relief it is to be where we are. I recently revised the ... " approach is a lot more honest, real, and trustworthy than the static communications of the past. The MIT community is built on a culture of openness

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  , not realizing that the author is terrible at presenting.   In ... tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... empty my schedule is. The truth is, however, like any MIT student with

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Okay, I”m not Jewish, but Hillel and the ... were not permitted at the dinner, but just imagine an endless feast in a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  ., 2:44 PM, 6/2/2018 Hi ESP, This is not really the right list for this ... primary form of transportation was a scooter. Not the super-cool and high ... ! MIT is a pretty walkable campus — the walk between Next House (my home

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  .) For the record, the current weather is gorgeous. This year, it's all a ... , although it's just a cart racing track, not a roller coaster. The outdoor lounge is only one story tall instead of two. The traditional merry

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit ... early admission rate is often much, much higher than the regular action admission rate). The reason is that we are committed to admitting no more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, which is brightly lit at night. The Paul ... Park Located right off the Long Wharf, this park is an ideal place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  machine, and not pen. The way it’s used is pretty different from back then ... Math words, but not the math part. Yes, I can nerd on about math, but ... mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  know how cool the sailing team is (we ran the account during spring break ... wow it is huge.) The venue was beautiful. Charleston’s boathouse is ... sailing on the Charles River (which, in case you didn't know, is dammed and

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... the Slack definitely fluctuates, which I think is also true for the ... , which I think is okay; we don't all have to find community in the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  know that not every single person who reads this blog is necessarily ... 't know what your favorite dinner is, so I'll just cook PB+J. NOT! I liked ... , did I have some imagination... which, as it turns out, is the central

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

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  grinning. I think it’s safe to say that orientation at MIT is not something ... implicit confidence is placed in the students at MIT. This school is set up ... learned that freshman year is the only year that there’s a cap on how many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  academic year is completed, and as such, it's also the time of year that MIT ... " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ice cream on Sunday, I will celebrate this holiday belatedly. The

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  the 30-minute read, except for the new guy (that's me). My average is ... seasons you can hike & swim there; in the fall, the foliage is breathtaking ... painfully SLOW. I was reading Matt's latest entry where he talks about the 30

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004