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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  won an Annie Look-a-Like contest in Chicago when I was seven years old ... Michigan Wolverines (Go Blue!), and the Boston Red Sox (but I always root for ... Literature Favorite things about MIT: I love that the people take their studies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream ... .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  . It's the grad student run pub in Walker Memorial, which means I can ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  vegetable-haters, I hope this can be another recipe in your limited list of ... is proportional, but it should be. I can definitely see how it ... cooker?  In short, rice cookers are amazing. I hear their younger cousin

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  do how can you really get the most out of the experience? I hope you ... more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... why I loved it so much here. CPW has been designed with the students in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  with changing how you walk in response to an injury is that you can ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  thing. I'm the only new one in this picture, I'm sporting my new red ... March 22nd in Copley Square. "Hm," I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if ... blogger, it's what I do). We took the red line to Downtown Crossing and then

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to ... headquarters. There's my laptop in the middle, where I watch what answers have ... 't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  bed. Some students have futons in their rooms you can sleep in. I am in ... that we'll receive a packet of information at check-in. Can I still get ... around their crotchety hosts all the time. I hope you all know how you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  how old do you think I am?" "I don't know, 16?" Coworker in my lab ... to die! CVS cashier dude: (I'm trying to buy Tylenol) Well, I need ... does that make me? I grew up in Taiwan but I went to an American school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  whole Pset in one sitting with no breaks Actually learn how to spell ... story Take the time to learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube Take part in ... pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ) is something that I don't think you can find in many commercial ... alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how ... thoughtfully, “This tastes like detergent.” That's how I lost my fear of cooking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  . In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list ... raised in a world without the its classic taste). After that, I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  carts available that students can use to wheel their luggage in. I was ... Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  , Sean. You yourself can visit the hack website here: Waldo Map I <3 ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Internships in F/ASIP, you can always take a really cool Advising Seminar. I ... , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am ... .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007