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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  ”) and use the profit to fund a connectivity company. But on a more serious ... Pelkins to Cameroon this summer to work on the project, with the support of ... , with Milton seated second from the left. To learn more about Cassvita

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  white square at the point and the word "anchor" next to it: Click on ... to the layer you want the object(s) to be on. Now the image is in layer ... click directly on the "Image Trace" button to let Illustrator pick the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or ... processor but do not turn the food processor on. Chop carrots into 5- to 8 ... leave it on the stove (on high) to heat up. On a large plate or bowl

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  punting the day-to-day negative impact it has on my life. I remember what it ... avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... told me that he convinced the EECS department to let him take his GIRs ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... 'm just kidding about the first part. It wasn't that cold. In an attempt to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  personal mission to make sure everybody on the planet earth knew I had gotten ... had not only given me the MIT bug but had also resigned themselves to ... impact on anybody's decision. I was reading the admissions site years ago

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  through Boston, a photo from my second-ever concert.) Today, I listened to ... to fictitious worlds to come to terms with the fact that they are weak and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  .” On the content of essays: someone has probably said to you, “Write ... to play the violin anymore and wanted to focus on other interests. (I ... to tell. Choose carefully! (On the other hand, in any case, there is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... ’t wait to get out of here.” I couldn’t have imagined all the changes that ... ), which before had annoyed me on plenty of occasions, and the podunk central

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  classes I want to be on my transcript when I apply to college. Even if it ... what I do these days. I'm putting my nose to the grindstone, and ... practice. So, after classes, I rode my bike to the local university. It was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... pretty much the same thing. But in the second example, "going to" isn't an ... audience. But most of the time, he stuck to the topic, which thoroughly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... . I'm going to try to semi-flow this debate, keeping you updated on all ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  answer the question within the first few seconds, and to gauge whether the ... what do I want to do, really? On the Friday of the first week of class ... wanted to do an internship over the summer. I don’t know what, exactly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  months, it felt really cool to have the tools to understand and analyze key ... group in the Media Lab, this class centered on computational and new media ... the time. I got to try out new frameworks like p5.js and paper.js and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Last night, MIT Aero/Astro professor Missy Cummings was the guest on ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... any more. Many exams will be scheduled close together, sometimes on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  came to MIT being under the impression—based on how intensely the quirky ... There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... the problem and then teaches the other person. To actually solve a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... -is-not-good-at-life-themed posts in the archives, what's another post on the pile? Here are some ... to confidently announce to the entire class that the new girl ‘talks

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014