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• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  ://youtu.be/nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film ... replies that she adds salt at the end to prevent okra from getting watery ... better. Or that was how things were going to play out anyways. And frankly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... representative, right? Sure, nothing new there. Some folks prefer to put their

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in ... performance in all of New England. In the days before sales opened, social media ... strike something intimate in everyone. I was hesitant to attend the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  ’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... of trying to get student rush tickets for Wicked (the untold story of ... had to go see it and make funny faces at her in the booth and show my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  new development. It really started back in October, when I attempted to ... conflicting events and schedules, we managed to get some good movies in ... to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  about it. I suspect it's because we mostly get new members by telling our ... attempted to dance twice, not counting flailing around to music in the living ... . Sadly, you're not supposed to bring cameras in, so I couldn't take

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the ... been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... ? How much should I factor in money over passion in a career to increase ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... , but little time or motivation to do anything else. In school, I had an average amount of time, and enough discipline to get my work done, but not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  Spanish professor how to "prove" my proficiency in Spanish, she basically ... haven't figured out how to feed all of the hungry people in the world ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  desire to meet cool new people in a virtual semester, led me to apply for a ... . I wanted to explore how my hair sometimes swallows me both in volume ... fashion. It was launched in print and online in early 2018, with new issues

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... pressing desire to learn how to drive. The one time I used public transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  in New England: https://youtu.be/MLuYfAdExvI I recently had cause to ... on All the fruit, having him explain to me how lemon guava in Malaysia ... job that I love, getting to meet —  in person, or via application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... studying something that will get people to think I'm smart, I'm disappointed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  how much things should cost, but I still get surprises from time to time ... have to literally shift clocks in order to get sunrises and sunsets at ... -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  and how you might want to fill them in while planning your activities ... free to get funky with this one and try reading your essay in Broadway ... competition, get a head start in the womb!). Freshman year - sophomore year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third double happened to be in the same CMS.100 class as Danny. As soon as the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  blog, you may wish to start a new blog and start writing over the next ... of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a ... the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  . specifically: why I chose to major in physics and mathematics how I decided to go to grad school what I focused on during undergrad how helpful ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit ... favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022