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  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... lab dress code. Other people in my lab often wear shorts and open-toed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a ... up from your little desk and seeing a line of caffeinated beverages ... I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  only 2.5 weeks left here in Bend.  I have yet to experience a lot of what ... to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for ... , there were a zillion other events that I'm still sad I didn't get to go to ... through even a page of this REX schedule without scratching your head or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  ! </Monkey Story> In Talking to a Physics Major Another night ... : Anyway, I click on the e-mail and see this: Subject: To Blog About A Dream Body: Memo to future self: I probably won't remember this in the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of ... . Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and soon "free food" isn't a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  a box of free truffles in her office to strangers on a mailing list ... space in our room that was screaming to be filled by a sofa. Attempts were ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... cream. Stir the soup, bring it back to a boil, and season to taste ... something very, very satisfying in garnishing soup with plants from your own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : N/A   Ok. Now let’s get to the juicy stuff.   21W.755 ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... take to replace your grade in one of the three units, but I was so

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... to call the final presentations a competition, at least in the usual ... now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... made me a 'ghost'. I essentially lived in my lab, coming home to my dorm ... , and I was in no way obligated to work that much. I ended up joining a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to ... sending this email! the end yours, kano In addition to the swift move

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... wanting to take a class at Harvard recently in order to experience a ... up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  In a different country, where You're always alone And so we're worried ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in ... philippines is in the tropics, so it's hot. the coldest it gets in my city is 20

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ... our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in ... , Tanglewood, and Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  which you're dealing. If it's what you want to do, MIT can give you a ... necessary; it all comes down to your reasoning, which is I'm happy to say is a ... , set to go out in a couple weeks. Melodie wrote, "Hey again, I know this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... (hang on, I’ll get to that), I decided that was a perfect time to make ... , shape, form, or box in my life, but I was more than willing to make a game

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... noted that it was refreshing to eat a meal in which all noodles had ... War Soldier for an hour watching a small Asian boy try in vain to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... characters from Redwall in search of a plot device. Short story short, I ... friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  ’ll probably be required to do it in your major anyway (even a social science ... me. Stay in touch, friends. Talk to upperclassmen. They are your ... , brace yourself for lift-off or landing. Get to know your professors and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018