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  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how ... thoughtfully, “This tastes like detergent.” That's how I lost my fear of cooking ... actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in

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

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  markers of excellence in their application and I will understand that their ... you. Also, I personally love it when students let me know about ways in ... declaration is the best way to go. In an ideal world, everyone would inquire

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... ocean (or just water in general) and I have had an interesting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7 ... spot in the class would mean a lot. She wrote back rather quickly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... I last appeared in any capacity on the internet. Though I do intend to ... this past semester, I thought I would close the year out first with this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... least I was in good company. The next morning, I felt oddly sympathetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running ... plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You ... in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  comment I would think comes from a place of him being very interested in his ... thousands of people who've ever lived in East Campus, I think about how I ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got ... in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to ... ) describing your experiences. I'll also throw in my Harvard Book Store frequent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... may use your preferred name or your legal name in communications
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being ... , people, everything in between. I'm stressed, you're stressed, and this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , first time driving in Boston, first time picking up my own rental car. I ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in ... thought it would be, perhaps because the road was deserted at 6.30 in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  when I was in high school, but if I had, I think I would have asked Mrs ... . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... 2 summers in Boston when I was in high school and they were so fun

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... a lot of other math majors would be (Random). I figured I would have ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011