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  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  . Li notwithstanding, I ended up becoming the chef on Saturdays at pika ... , blend, stir, and sample for two and a half hours until dinner was served for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... . (Sidenote, for reference: "normal" courseload is 48 units, and one unit is ... developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... 't be afraid to speak up! Lena says, in reference to my previous entry ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  And we bring you more sketch! Watch . . . us

  

  This is what happens when we hook up a webcam to the server in our floor lounge. Say hi!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW LiveBlogging Project Followup Here's the link!

  

  The CPW LiveBlogging project is up and running! You'll find it here: cpw2008.tumblr.com Enjoy! :-) -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... custom-made and toasted sandwiches for lunch there. Although none of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... manhandling at the door. They even gave us free French fries to apologize for ... us. An older lady at the table next to us stood up and started

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  When MIT Students Blew Up the Sun For a fun prank in 1992, MIT ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is globally renowned for ... for sure that it gives off that quirky MIT charm. “Did you shrink

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , comes from repetitive motion (like typing). For me it shows up as pain in ... running, and that pretty much cleared it up. That week, though. Jesus. That ... off for years, sometimes better, sometimes worse. I think it was worse

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  here. The name plate on our door has four slots, taken up by AWESOME PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up ... (for his birthday, we made a Whirlpool Galaxy out of cake, frosting, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  being hyperbole. So let me clear up a few misconceptions. And a totally ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  . And from there I wiped off the grime and stood up again, this time a ... start ups and nonprofit orgs DanceTroupe a sorority CodeIt the ... permanent or constant in my time here at MIT except for blogging. Even my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  receive from the office instructs them to keep an eye out for "delivery owls ... , last October 5th, Loren and I met up on campus with my uncle Andy and my ... :   Noah was going to be on campus for MIT's SAT test prep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  story of how I ended up in 6-2. 6-9 I entered MIT last fall knowing I ... ’d already made a Courseroad for 6-9.) I became a stereotypical CS student. I coded websites and Discord bots for fun and would include C++ when asked

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  every facet, and breaking it adequately becomes the feedback loop for your ... culture and hack the systems they build for you. Very fun stuff and very ... /Quantum - 18.901/8.04 This duo was a bit weird. I was taking 8.04 for the first

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... acquired standards for friends). But what hit me the hardest was I realized I ... ?” “For the hell of it. Oh man, my mouth’s getting numb,” they say, reaching

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  about math. That made sense, I suppose—they had voluntarily signed up for ... other institutions, so this might be much easier for me than those at ... for various computer science groups because I want the job opportunities

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  can’t hear very well, for some reason, and I feel like the physical ... unending enthusiasm for learning. There were things that she loved. I feel ... .008[/annotation] this semester; three difficult lab CS classes. Er, difficult for me

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  debating whether or not I should, and it wasn’t an easy decision for a few ... for me it’s just a [annotation note="arts graduation requirement"] HASS ... abandon them. Furthermore, I have already written about twenty pages for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022