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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  the language). I’m getting interested in studying how social ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... -nighters in studio. Linguistics major? Other research areas excited me more. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... how it fits into the experiments you did in class. DO NOT LET THIS

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... electricity!) showing how purely mechanical designs can be efficient and ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each ... phenomena in neuroscience to computer science. I enjoyed how it was broken ... in history. From colonial American traditions, to how food can initiate

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of

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

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  's window. I remember thinking that this can't be our last goodbye, but in a ... about Spinning Arts, a tailless cat I met in Wales, how I injection molded ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005