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• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  started and meditating on how and why would be unproductive. The truth is ... . My love for food, this desire to cook — I found myself in the middle of ... wrapped in a microfiber cloth. Most of the media I consume explores food in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  are hosting events on Tuesday—and it also isn’t how I would plan my own ... comes to me, I probably would have spent my Saturday afternoon at Next ... sustainable living from iHouse, because in our neck of the woods having fun

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  . Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many ... settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... talking to other prefrosh getting to know the people that I would be going

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  Leatherman in your pocket?) and I supported the window with a knee and both hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order ... with them. I realized that it would be easier to close the window from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I ... has a question: Jess, I had a question, how do you get placed in your dorm? Do you just get put in randomly? Because I would really like to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  playing in the background to keep from falling asleep), I completed my epic 15-paged chem pset and turned it in at noon. That said, and I did better than I expected on the physics test, so everything was worth it in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  effort in, but for some of the units I couldn’t do well no matter how hard ... luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain ... computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my rental car. Because I was in California, my first stop was In-N-Out. I ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it ... despaired, since I wasn't quite sure whether it would turn into a triple

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... ELEFANTES! Love you, Bryan Now back in the 90s, I used to have to rely on

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  person would consider young: safe to say they’re in their twenties and ... far out in line that no store light shines upon my head. instead, i ... is salt ramen. i think that’s the magic tonkotsu, of using bone in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... some magic, and eventually we had the cookies in the oven. I rushed over

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  , and I hope you'll feel free to keep in touch and talk about all the ... decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... to get them to you in time? A: I previously answered this incorrectly ... about your financial documents, email [email protected]. Q: How do I schedule

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... I was stronger in the humanities and social sciences than in STEM, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also ... , I learned (the hard way) how not to pronounce "Nevada" (hint: it's not ... 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Do you have cheerleaders? This, I guess, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  that I should've worked harder in my classes, even though I also know ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022