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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how ... moved out; the Trader Joe's, which has its own devoted cult, is a bit ... Costco for a few hours on Sunday too, which is helpful, but functionally

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive ... material is "not useful". Notice that I talked about a frosh dichotomy. This

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  overall experience much more enjoyable. Second, it is a good way to start ... months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little ... because people generally think it is a good thing to do. You should do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... class, the less of a need there is for a group chat. The harder the class, the more helpful a group chat is in getting through the semester. III

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades ... know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... that is every bit as entertaining as it is rational. The Guild: a web

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  , but this isn't even a water bed. This is all water, no bed. No mattress ... defense: growing and improving is a gradual, human process where you ... seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  as a side effect, it is also much safer than an open cavity, which is ... " kinds of solutions in the village, and how the final hand-dug well is much ... “Why is There No Water”. This was a long, arduous process, seriously

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  This one is a bastardized amalgamation of random internet recipes. This will show how improvised my cooking is. Chop 12 slices bacon finely ... the bacon is mostly cooked, add the onion. Let simmer for a couple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... of some image (or writing, or film, etc.) is chosen. A frame is a “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B ... first conversation, since it is closer to a complete end. This is not to ... query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  officer? That is, someone admitted on a very tipped scale towards ... criteria, everyone here is an excellent student. A lower bar isn't set for ... More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  big difference. When I greet someone and ask how their day is, instead ... experience with depression has given me a much broader perspective of what ... MIT going through the ups-and-downs together—to make the world a much

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  brightly-colored sticker dots. Except the area is much larger, typically a ... (Diana S. '25): "Being a journalist is so much more fun when 3/4 of your ... , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  and figuring out how exactly you can make the world a better place. So ... life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you want to hold onto ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  thought about how much fun it would be to go to college together. This is ... institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years, perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door, making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... as much as I have. I just see how I barely even wrote legible answers

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by ... there is this life, the life without my sister. My sister died in a car ... that it is intensely painful to lose someone you love that much. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009