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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  Random Hall friend Devin. It doesn’t have frills, like a dishwasher or a ... than pan-fried) but I don't own a deep fryer to check. Collard Greens ... commercial spice mixes because we have no space for a real spice rack and don't

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at a time. And I'm hoping this will help. Writing, that is. Speaking

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... that what you choose is a lot less important than that you are confident

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  RHOP Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered ... ? Tea isn't even a thing!' 17:17 - 18:17 Boffing on the Roofdeck Arm ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  , streamed down my cheeks in a flood that wouldn’t let up. The emotion ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... . That was CGI, right? Some nights you aren’t sure. There’s a scale model

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day ... . I can’t really work when I’m hungry, which is when I wake up. And I don’t really work that well immediately after a meal. So let’s add in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  don’t live up to that label. Sometimes it feels that I’m not gay enough ... each other in Arabic. And what do I have? All of a sudden, I feel like I’m ... ’s like I’m wearing a mask, like I’m putting on this persona, like I’m

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  week that probably won’t flatten out any time soon. I’m also fairly ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  they did not “belong” at U-M, a 66% increase over the last decade...U-M ... different from mine will understand an applicant's context in a way I couldn't ... attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Aero/Astro. And, while she didn't have big SAT scores, she was clearly a ... criteria, everyone here is an excellent student. A lower bar isn't set for ... More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... .) Things are going well in the lab, although I'm breeding a lot of mice right ... entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  doesn't work out very well. As one of the new admissions bloggers, I'm ... any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview ... learning a lot about how production companies operate, but I'm also

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  ," awkward faces Things you won't see in this video: a cohesive narrative of ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  you missed it, which I'm pretty sure you didn't, MIT EA comes out this ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever ... application wouldn't be on my pile in the first place.) By now I'm fully ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  2.THU is not really a class--it’s my thesis!!!!!!!!! This means I don’t ... years paid off!!) Now that I’m a senior and a lot more experienced, I ... behind thesis-ing (as a 2A major, I’m not actually required to do one

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018