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  deep talks , strange person

  

  viewed it in a different light. We then contemplated how important getting ... games. I really, really love playing this game, in spite of how emotionally taxing it is, because I miss deep talking with my friends a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you ... boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... quads, a square dance club near stanford. in many senses it is the sister ... alyssa's estimate. there is no buffer in alyssa's schedule. bob says it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... about whether or not that part about what you do in your free time was a ... , this is a tough one. 1) Be pretty much the coolest person ever. If that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... . Apparently you use an s when a proper noun ends in an "s" sound, but no s when the proper noun ends in a "z" sound.. So you say "Sufjan Stevens' banjo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’s shabbos candles. The door handle is a beaver cast in bronze.  [carousel ... on a curve to get a certain bend, how much to let the metal cool before ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  was pretty much the first delicious meal I've had from a restaurant ... where *SPOILER* everybody else dies. There was also a huge wading pool in ... concert if it were free and staged in Boston Common. Certainly, this was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note="also known as course 6-3"]computer science.[/annotation] There is a difference ... learned about [annotation note="This was in 6.006, which is Intro to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... how much money i spend on uber"]a budget car[/annotation] from somewhere ... surprised by how nice the subway system is! people shit on LA public transit a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  Gilroy Garlic Festival 2005: The entrance is flanked by two port-a ... each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On ... , we can smell the garlic. Love is in the air, and it doesn't smell good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more ... it in Germany, but döner is seriously the most delicious thing on earth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  work a little bit in a vlog, although not with too much detail. Right now ... people or how to chameleon in various social situations. I have a lot of ... , classes are settling into a rhythm, the pumpkin takeover is underway, and I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  upwards, almost pulling the plastic part off the metal (it is a U-Lock, even though it's chaining up a bike that was only $20). It is after midnight. A few people walk by and I wonder vaguely how much it looks like I am

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  salt. Nevertheless, this post is a big step in the right direction, and ... burning in your mind right now – what exactly is hardness? Merriam ... ].[/caption]A slightly more sophisticated scale is the Vickers hardness scale

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... major, there is a lot of work in making things like MRI’s, CAT scans ... can be very much limited by how much the lab has. A lot of my friends

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  stop you and interject that it is in fact a “fork with spoon ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... is a seminar-style course on ethics in literature. It’s co-taught by my ... shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  cooker, and press a button. This is so much easier than pan-frying where ... ’s especially great for busy college students because it is a relatively hands-free ... " align="aligncenter" width="256"] Here she is in all her glory

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  : 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case ... this is speaking from personal experience, I think living in a fraternity is on par if not a little less expensive than living in a dorm

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011