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  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful ... scherzo of flavors started with a childish grapeyness, seguing slowly into the mature musk of well-aged Costco-quality imported vinegar, followed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  : Which escalated into: The people on the other side of the street on ... newspapers will spin you a cybertastically-juiceless tale of a bleach ... notice as a truckload of detonated TNT, of a Polaroid press conference

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  thought I’d give you guys a glimpse into the life of a student-athlete here ... balance of all the things that are important to me."  Favorite sport ... Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  into the lecture hours of my other classes and that night, I got steam ... want to insert into that sentence. I regret not staying on top of the ... subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Very Important Announcement i promise this is not clickbait

  

   

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  As we’ve already seen, tests can really throw a curveball into one ... hours upon hours of basically the same material each night. This semester ... , my classes for the GEL program are relatively free of curveballs when

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  23, 10:00 pm I ran into some of my teachers from MIT and a few friends ... end of the night, an important person from a big business that turns ...   January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  blogs, but I knew that if I got into MIT I would be happy, and I knew that if I got into MIT I would be the person I wanted to be. That’s not true ... and let them roll through my mind. All of my dreams have come true. Have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  —a kaleidoscope of half-bright insights and character revelations and important plot ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  campus and enter into another phase of our lives. Of course, there are ... Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some synthetic textile like polyester, while my mom was convinced that “of course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  the importance of inclusion and diversity are relevant to society as ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was ... Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  (courtesy of Dora '18) that I turned into a gif so, pardon the shakiness ... that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I have somehow become one of those crusty seniors who still haunts these

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... economic growth. Sam brought this into the larger context of our current ... Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and ... largely out of my mind and was brought into focus again by the recent ... , you decide to divide test subjects into groups of 3, and have the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their ... ’s quite a bit of effort that goes into making sure we all have what we need

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... -career leadership program in my field went into the void, I guess. I filled out an

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• 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 / Admissions

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

  

  life, none of that is more important than your health. I also hope you ... 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

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  limit can be found here. I didn't get into any of my CI-Hs. What do I do ... out how to fall into the groove of MIT. The number one advice I have for ... importantly of all, drop things you don't like and keep the ones you do. Drop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022