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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First, I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high ... that I’ve been able to sing with a large ensemble in person, and it is ... is also a curse. In these moments, I need someone to catch me as I fall

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is ... -An underground party in which electronic music is played; dancing occurs in a very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then ... : Drop the lowest score *out of psets that were handed in*. This is much ... days without having to get S^3 in the loop."This is a little bit like the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in the very least, good quality tortillas in a super market. Not only did I not find a tortilleria, but I didn’t even find good quality tortillas in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  ordered a $288 Chinese New Year party platter in the Singapore Cafe and ... actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her ... was stupendous in every conceivable way, it was actually a little weird

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  Intel Core M in some of the new surface pro tablets. This is a less ... exchange for a slimmer, quieter tablet/laptop. The difference in speeds is ... than regular hard drives. But they are a technology that is much better

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in ... sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose ... . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... in college. I mean, this is a normal experience, right? People building ... example... Figure 1. Thursday 1a) First stop in the morning. 3

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  now, I am a free agent. However, what people don’t tell you, is that ... little crazy is a good sign? Or maybe writing it out is therapeutic in a ... A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  (Course 3) major with a minor in Physics (Course 8), which is working out ... free food than other majors. I just had a great sandwich. In full ... in the process*. *Not sure how this will help me pick a major, but the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  beanbag is much better. Corkboard for jewelry I have a lot of beautiful ... passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of ... have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  pleather chair in my dentist's office waiting for a cleaning while reading ... struggle is worth it. This is how I felt during the entirety of November and ... too much stuff at a time. Some people are able to do all of this and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components ... I'm using. Here we also specify how each component is connected to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  . Climate change and resource exhaustion is very much a real issue. Humanity ... provocative in such a volatile, fast-paced media world. Obviously, he's said ... , THIS IS NOT A GOOD TAKE ANYMORE SINCE HE KINDA SUCKS!!!! Specifically, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in ... ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  much time I have left. The first round is me doing a read over through my ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... have a significant amount of time to dedicate to it.A key factor in these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021