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  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  festivities, tradition is to take lots of pictures and sing carols. We took the ... goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  insist on denying that the future is rushing towards me at a terrifying ... notebook! Adelaide says: okay, and this is a serious plan this time (not that ... , but that's not required. and then, to keep life balanced, I would be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  important to the health of the club that we had a change in leadership. The idea is that this change becomes regular, and the club far outlasts the ... robot. That’s what I did over IAP! The podcast is from something a long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  Initiative, better known as MISTI, is launching its ninth country program: the ... architecture lecture entitled "Warm and Cool Architecture: India and the West," a ... So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  home countries of rock bands the Scorpions ("Rock You Like a Hurricane ... Mario 3 (yes, it was released in the same year that an applicant I read ... : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the ... , and karaoke as the night goes on. Most people dress to impress although ... -flops. This night was extra-nice because prior to the "actual" event we had a

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  ). I could do all that, but there’s a pear clafouti recipe I’m dying to ... it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center ... workout that day and gosh darnit all I want is some peanut butter and some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  question and work my way to the first one. Learn people's names. MIT is a ... life is [annotation note="trial and error is the best way to learn and I ... the same lab, working on the same project. From that, I have gained a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  using the same processes that are used to make computer chips, utilized ... . Prof. Karp knew that he wanted to be a bioengineer in college, and ... researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . Ride the Red Line to Boston Commons. Find a squirrel that doesn't look ... One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  is to work at a design studio in the future, and I was so excited to ... 's been a few years since I'd been to either. My friend and I made the trek ... Championships, and here is the group of us at MJM after our "sendoff," aka a mock

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no ... actually notice that 3 is not 7 (not even to the nearest 7, which is a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  find that it is way easier to have a semblance of work-life balance and ... probably would like to take a class so that I don’t break my neck and suffer ... that point.    This example is a bit of a hyperbole and idealistic

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  we are too tired to wait. There is a heat wave going on and the air is ... both the air and rain are cool, not cold. There is nothing to fear, so ... solution is the same each time. I get off at the closest station and sit on a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... . Except there were a lot more of them. And then, day by day, the buds ... of green dotting a tree that was once bare. Then there’s the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  at the same 8.02 table — and have continued to take classes together ... have pushed myself in the same way. But there's something so unique and ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as

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

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  solution to a real world problem. Each year there is a theme to the robot ... the FIRST robotics competition. There are two elements to the program: a ... your process – the teamwork, intentions, and values that you bring to it

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the ... to college. But now the payoff has come, and it is time to make the tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  . Who do i need to contact if i am a "case" that needs to take the test in ... or 6 programs on it. I would like to scrap that, and just write a ... application to that effect, except for the Internet. :( 3. And, my Principal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006