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  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  'm reading for my urop - some are for fun, like the first seven volumes of saga ... Here is a picture of Allan's room, snipped from here: He left this ... imaginable - we have the same romanized last names, we're both in the same

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... . Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  like, “A good loaf of bread is condescending toward the cheese”? (I hope ... all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don ... for their rant.) This is also true of food; I like to eat the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of ... tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... different that I’m going to tell it anyways. As part of the MIT PE requirement ... sailing, the crew can let go of the rope holding the sail anytime she wants

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... moment was the dark night of my soul. While working those two jobs, I ... applied for. The idea of failure was crushing and at times it felt like I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was ... 's incredibly refreshing to see that the rest of the office is inspired by it too ... preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... little corner of my heart was still disappointed. Maybe I just wasn't good ... sure that everything sounded good in the large, cavernous space. I walked

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for ... controlled with joysticks). The goal of 6.270 is to teach students about

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of ... committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  also got to read a lot of really good articles from the New England ... . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  by the amount of spam and youtube videos that are coming into my inbox, I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite ... ...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... outside of the Museum of Science on a Boston Duck Tour before the tour guide ... . When we got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  and the goodness of many. I am in awe of the kindness of people like ... , darling girls, I paraphrase the words of Shakespeare: Good night, sweet princesses. Good night, those who symbolize a new day. And may the flight of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control" and the second one "Experiment."" -an embarrassed '12 "Can anyone help

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the ... food truck outside of building 68 (the biology building) also had some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and ... through the middle of our room and you might even be wondering, "What?! Are those 4x4's running through the middle of your room?!" Well, yes. But here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007