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  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  As part of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a ... attended an etiquette seminar taught by Jodi Smith last week. For an hour and ... . Also during your introduction, give a little snippet of information about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  my stuff down three flights of stairs. and by moving things, i mean 1 ... [annotation note="(realistically, one week)"]two weeks[/annotation] of the ... [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  LONG MOVIE! We were wiped by the end of it. It didn't help that there are ... movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not ... webmaster of http://www.qwantz.com (because of stuff like this already posted on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  'd like to meet anyone who ends up buying one of these. By posting these ... I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  myself missing the feeling of having a lot of friends very close by, just a ... lounge with other people instead of in your room by yourself, or take some ... months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . There are tons of prep courses offered by Princeton, Kaplan, and even ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  over by balancing a wooden spoon on top of the pan; you should let me ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts ... scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... -fasting diet of watery vegetable soup and salad (occasionally and discreetly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  by how a fairly small puddle can suck all the heat out of your body ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the ... wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I couldn't have done it without all your help. I feel kind of guilty begging ... ! $100! One of my charms is that I have absolutely no responsibility when

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... place) The Journey to Heathrow, Fortress of the Skies The few days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -crushing silence, during which I told time by the angle of the sun.   Finally ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  unnatural, fake, and caused by reading milenial blogs. After these days of ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  amazing."]endgame[/annotation], pack my laptop, and head out of next house ... , 「本当だよ。」 i swear, that simple sentence hits harder than a pound of brick ... , my hall is quite weeb and a significant number of people have taken at

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  written freshman spring 2015 inspired by this awesome video from Ze ... . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  than part of your life.For me, by the time I got up to go to class, I ... intimidated by going to office hours, perhaps in part out of pride, for not ... 18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009