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• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... read and write in Russian. After school I went to an archetypal after ... figure skating or gymnastics or piano or swimming or tennis. I ate lunch in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... windows to keep out the heat. I mean — obviously. In Arizona it’s hostile

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the ... Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man ... next installment! Typical London row houses When you're in London

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  when you buy/order something at a store. I think it's in their employee ... とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... location when I was still going to school in Taiwan). Also, I'm trying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... ... but you should also research the weather. I am still mentally, physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... gaming has led to an even further increase in nerdiness. Sometimes I can ... -timey mechanical scenes. You know, the sort of thing where you put in a quarter (well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  solved for, I could plan my future by laying these decisions out in front of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So there I was one afternoon at MIT, talking to Dumbledore in his office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  's, but all too often it can also mean being stuck in lab, not eating.  And ... access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  can cook up with whatever you currently have in your fridge.   ... same size can. Technology like this currently exists in the form of ... can't buy one right now as an individual because they're too busy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... way from back in November!) and I definitely wrote some other entries in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... waited in the car, promising that I'd visit again soon. I had even been ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  revisited the "Sighting Method," a technique I learned in class where one ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... drawing I must preface that I never thought of myself as a drawer. In fact

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  kitchen space than, well, buying a $200 pressure cooker and air fryer in one ... place where I do my skincare routine and whatnot. There's also a microwave ... classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... , where I’ve had some of my greatest successes in academic competition and ... friends in my dorm than a million-dollar view, but I guess I can’t be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  to Coolidge Corner, buy his book, which I'd been meaning to pick up for ... appearing in the verbal section. I thought I could make this blog educational ... logistics. Alas! Tickets sold out hours in advance of Bruce's appearance! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  dance." Cynthia O' '16 and I swooned in our seats and ate free shish ... 'm qualified to be here because I am a black man in America, and that does not ... 'm not here to get you to buy a CD. I don't care if you come to my next

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... the things you like. Especially because I live in East Campus where ... with keeping myself alive. Can you believe that? I have to remember to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  skeptics out there), I can’t say whether or not MIT is unique in its ... another life. So I indulged in the visual fantasies, especially when I came ... products were worth buying. I’d finally developed a healthy dose of marketing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  Yields: One sandwich that I have been told resembles something you can buy ... -night dining where that's the only option). Drink mixes Of course, I can ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012