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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy ... it has [annotation note='the gastrodiplomacy of Thailand is quite ... ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well ... definitions of “well-qualified” and “top school” are subjective, but the point

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... chemistry is probably one of my favorite subjects - drawing those little arrow ... tupperware. 9:46 AM: Keeping ants out of sugar is important, anyway. (While

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed ... to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in ... back to the first week of class because I didn’t feel ready. Much to my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  2019 The Tucson sun is sweltering, and the rubber of your shoes will ... thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  'm already stressed about it. The end result of these conversations is always the same ... exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Con! Because dorm culture is one of the most unique parts about MIT, and around ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  projects with some of the most unlikely people. It's not MIT, but it is great ... 2014 off. I traveled and collected stories as is the rite of passage for ... ." The cycle of hobbies is almost a guarantee in my life. A hobby I know I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students ... opened my application around mid-summer, which is the start of first

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... because Tetazoo is full of procrastinators, we only started at around 8:00pm ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... door looks like. It’s a chalkboard. This is what my half of the room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  the company of others later. 20) Social media is a strange space to ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... , whether home is driving distance from MIT or halfway across the world

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the ... wanted to go is terrifying. Worse yet, think how much more traumatic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010