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  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... the event, providing each floor of the dorm with staple ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, butter, and, of course, apples. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... friend that you’ve just met understanding only half of what someone just ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  now almost everyone's heard of it. i got it especially bad, though ... two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... side, that workload that was just the right pace? it's far ahead of you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every ... had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... sketch that could be an arbitrary number of sides. This seemed like a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers ... thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I hadn’t been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half ... sort of conflicted about whether or not I should do it anyway, because I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... chatter of sixteen Toons; afternoons working on group projects; evenings of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... be really awful and lonely, and maybe you spent lots of time just

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... 's lectures were divided between two professors, both of whom I enjoyed. Once

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... know feeling of anticipation right before decisions are released, what it ... rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

    Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my ... Tabernacle). This makes Boston just a little more like home. A few of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... RING PREMIERE. 3) Three of our Theta freshmen discovered gchat emoticons

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009