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• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old ... recorded when I was talking to my parents about college decisions. To spare ... about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  you've been admitted to us, come to MIT! I'll buy you a fresh Mr. Q ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  some words easier, because it stops people from making big thoughts to kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  stopped by Target to buy some snacks for the marathon walk. I ate a few ... This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  yet, or MIT Engage's UI/UX is actually trash. 8:00 PM i need to buy ... 8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the ... upon us, I'm proud to present you with - drum roll please - my very first ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for ... drawback that now there is nothing more appealing to me than the kitchenware ... kitchen stuff. Some of them have been gifted to me, others I purchased, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  chance to crochet things for the Lounge and buy as much yarn as I need ... black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to ... immediately. I couldn't go to the market myself since I had something going on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and make sure every page was laid out correctly, but also to steer the design ... what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to ... anything else done. But, of course, as soon as classes ended I set to work

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... "Buddy Holly" to Weezer. Yesterday I met three people who did not know who ... I've got this term is 6.003: Signals and Systems. And, to be honest, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  time to buy groceries so you haven't had a meal in a week and you've been ... form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... Ivy, and we dragged our luggage to Baker, which is where we would be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008