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• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... in the word really thinks like I do. That's always a safe assumption

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  a recipe? No. Did I have any idea what I was doing? No. How much ... not really a recipe, in as much as it is an idea for what things you can combine. I added a little oil and some eggs in the rice cooker, set to cook

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  . Today, my world is bigger. I live in a different apartment now (still in ... I finally finished In the Distance by Hernán Díaz, a novel I had ... sleep, I gladly accept the trade. What a privilege it is to resist

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  27 Dresses and Empire Strikes Back; the night before that, A New Hope ... the front desk, and so the Burton-Conner deskworkers think I'm a little bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... .01: Classical Mechanics. (Should I be linking to 8.01t or the 8.01 in lecture ... have rented by the hour from Bike and Roll? I think not. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  different topics and latest in scientific research. I should go to more of ... Having slept for a solid 8 hours last night, I'm finally awake enough ... : !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days! I honestly cannot believe it's been nearly two years

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that ... ’s dynamic, so I have to put in a time component. I also added a memory ... catch changes in the populations behavior. And I wanted to see how easy a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “ ... of a meat locker? What ever happened to energy conservation?), when I ... ’d be interested in becoming a content creator for OLW. Of course, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  whether you should try to change some behaviors. I prefer that a lot more to ... ! Here’s a random astrology site I used, I have no idea what the actual ... applicable now) is definitely questionable. In Western astrology I am a Pisces

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... learned how small of a world it really is, I also learned that to learn what

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have like, a moment, when ... mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... -driven than other classes I’ve taken at MIT. It’s a lot like what I imagined ... -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  competition. I think we should be getting a good seed for NEWMACs at the end of ... , we rented out an airbnb in Maine to spend a weekend together. I have ... a typical day, I wake up at 9:00 AM to get ready for the day. Before

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  from seventh to eleventh grade before I finally “retired” from it in my ... teacher or a CS teacher within the public school system I was in. AP ... first step in a lab. But it also drives me nuts in that I’m getting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  window, look at the sky (I hope there is a sunset) 2. Write down what you ... and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of ... !! Scrapbook!! play w a dog!! Audrey ’24- I enjoyed going on runs and wandering

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  if I were a baby; when I was ignored at grocery stores in favor of ... black female in an international context more deeply than I had before ... something similar, and I believe that if I had gone in with a more accurate

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  some lunch, and sneak in some stardew valley before my next class. have i ... join a voice call on a social discord server i'm in. someone was ... 09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  write about a topic that we should know a lot about: our classes. I ... than what I’ve taken before because I don’t have any lab based classes ... what usually comes to mind, it is infinitely enjoyable. I was in band in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... to CS Programming in Python: I’m awful at programming under a time ... preregister for a bunch of them and hope you get into one), so I wound up in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018