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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  't easily take the mousse out while keeping its shape. I had to buy another ... think I hadn't? I feel like after I knew what it was, I started to see it ... so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with “flying close to the sun:” although I might’ve been overambitious this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

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

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023