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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  dumping everything else in a pot and letting it simmer for at least 45 ... a can of your chosen legume, P1, and microwave for 3 minutes in a ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... much. Having now lived in the Boston area for 23 years, the question I ... the way I squeezed in time for amazing people. But it was always a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  to Work 9:00–Arrive in Lab! Switch media for cells 10:00–Start ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... participate in a research project during term time. For me, such direct ... I learn in class, but also fuels my enthusiasm for science

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin's case, The Tube) until both we and the pterodactyls in our stomachs were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P ... a apartment in Nanjing for a month since it was cheaper than a month ... most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... that. For the first time in a while, I was facing a stressful situation ... Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  and nobody will judge you for it. So if you ever find yourself in need ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... as an O, for not showing up, but someone over in Student Support

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  feeling a little guilty, we all sent him a thank you photo in response for ... . As Aiden beautifully describes in his blog on studying for finals, this part ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... . In reality, it’s done by puzzling over equations for days on end ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  were also in[annotation note="Math for Computer Science"]6 ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... of one of them: they're a student in[annotation note="Elements of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... was coming in. I knew Cru existed but not much about it, and after

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... in: this year's admit rate will be 13%. For every student you admit ... came. Some would call me foolish for getting this wrapped up in the job

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  work in teams, and what qualities to look for in good teammates. I ... company) for my entire life. I discovered a fear of getting boxed in, a fear ... fulfilling internship at a company I never expected to work for: Amazon, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was ... classroom and in the lab. The assumptions I had taken for granted were ... I decided I wanted to make a Twitter bot for my final project in CMS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016