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• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  trash is overflowing and you can't get a good grasp on it and all your ... breaking a few weeks after that--it started doing the thing where you have to ... big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is, leaving you hints and leaving you guessing. This is the entry where all is revealed, where I tell you exactly what my team and I have been working on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , depending on who you asked. More often, my team took a Peter Pan bus to a race ... -packed in the closet. Now, I’m buying a dresser and unpacking my clothes. As I ... almost a year reunite safely with all the friends you’ve missed. I hope

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  first things I learned as a student here is that you can’t be good at/do everything. When you’re young, there are a billion open doors you can walk ... , I came to MIT; I chose the dorm Senior House, where there are a lot

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  choice. Though, there have been many nights this semester where I ... semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me ... . Day-of, I still had a pset due at 10pm. Delivery started at 7pm. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  update us. The FUN form is due by February 15th. You may still submit a ... some time now, I can tell you it is almost never one thing which, if only ... that the best thing you can do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  . My single is in a suite. This can mean different things across dorms ... I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... , sustained periods. What's sprinting for us, is a comfortable pace for them. A

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  the box, and basically responded, what else is there? Only after the ... exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a ... a lot about the design and fabrication of complex machinery, then you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  now been put in a retirement home where it can consult a therapist twice ... Station for testing autonomous docking algorithms. The idea is that you want ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  lots of shortcuts if you’re okay with doing that. there is only one point ... on time there is an almost entirely identical alternative path where ... blocking most of a hallway. in these scenarios you can walk behind them, take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  to make zongzi. There is a proper way -- the kind seen in every youtube tutorial of this online -- where you take a single leaf and somehow fashion ... than can be said for a lot of papers out there.”"]Dylan also can

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  're almost there. At the end of the day we count. I can't give you details (so ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  muscles involved, but this is where you REALLY feel it"]force of my thighs ... . To be completely honest, I can’t see a future where that’s true for me ... such a clear way that there’s never doubt that you’re progressing. All

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  before a midterm. Don't buy textbooks until you start actually attending ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... booked a hotel room. A $55K per year hotel room.  Of course, sometimes you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... where you keep telling yourself that all this is stupid and you should ... the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  just realized that you can take the Tech Shuttle straight from Kendall ... (included at the bottom), I'm going to post a Japanese song this year. This is ... drama is about a radical teacher that sets out to train a group of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  , theoretically, if you can predict the magnetic field over time, and plan a ... ’m claiming this spring as a “research semester.” This is mostly an aspirational ... the TA a lot, and I hope I keep liking them.  I think econ is

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  beautiful and so big and has so much! There is bound to be a place for you. 4 ... midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you ... is one of the very few times where you'll actually have enough time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... , but there was definitely a decrease in our hosage. Sometimes, density of cross outs doesn't necessarily correlate with how busy a week actually is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017