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  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the ... Child was a cook, not a chef. She grew up in Pasadena, CA, went to Smith ... ,” which is one of my favorite books, and added a conclusion to tie things

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester ... many wubs. There's a Red Hot Chili Peppers song with a guitar solo. In a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  all in perspective, is that MIT is not an end but a beginning. I'm aware ... have a friend who received her acceptance to MIT while she was living in ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  Hamster Her name is Princess Leia!! She's a princess. She lives in a ... is happier than ever, and I'm with my good friend, Dan S. '17, who just ... to be a real person. Like a real person who pays bills. But then I paid

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... for those who aren’t sure where to get started. There’s also a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  you can pass their classes. Instead, a college is interested in ... I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was ... puts their faith in you, they do so believing that there is potential in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  editorials. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as ... 't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think ... somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... submit a proposal beyond "lying on the beach," but often little more is ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  , sunburn I did. Anyway. This entry is a PSA for the Overnight Program, in ... ! Going on a college visit without sitting in on some classes is like going ... late with your host (who is probably a lot more nocturnal than you are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  attended a student-faculty dinner, UA sponsored or not, feel free to share ... Organic Chemistry is notoriously hard. But what isn't hard is having ... MIT's Undergraduate Association! "WAIT FREE FOOD?" That's right. You

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  later in the day. Maybe that's a bit overboard, but the rain is something ... been in a drought). Combined, heat and humidity are killer. But when you add in hot and humid rain, well, that’s like putting a kangaroo in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ~1300 designers, investors, faculty, and friends who won tickets via a lottery and pack into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons ... that: (1) your essay is written in a consistent tense (“I sat on a cow ... words? Every word is precious. Every sentence is about who you are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... . Bonus facts about snot: Mucus is actually a pretty non-trivial barrier in ... material snot really is. Fast forward a few years, and I'm making educational

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 papers is that you demonstrate a rigorous, scholarly analysis of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... 't like very much, so I dropped it in the second week and didn't even log a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  as most of the grad housing, but I get a bit more control about who I ... 4 people instead of a long hallway with 40 is definitely very ... , but I also find myself alone in a quiet house a lot more than I used to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  participating in the Freshman Outdoors Program, a pre-orientation backpacking trip ... notes in the mountains. The vegetation here is different. I know the ... , missing the comforts of home, but the struggle is a good challenge

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  of the Future" issue. He is a proud member of First Baptist Church in ... recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... .Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in England as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005