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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  on high heat. I use 1 bouillon cube per cup of water, but you can use ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  one on the art end of the visual storytelling production pipeline. But ... have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be ... ). On average (based on end of semester surveys), students spend 10

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere. When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact, I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... ; instead, it started up in the 1920s, as cars ended up in basements and cows ended up on roofs.  The earliest example known of such a hack? 11

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need ... should have (most of) the requirements memorized by the end of your first ... . Something like "I'll take one science GIR per semester" and "I'll finish my PE

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... building numbers are the buildings that end with 6. Buildings 6, 16, 26 and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... , of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , and amazing. And I feel good about these days, because I like the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... other, I went down to the basement to walk through the tunnel that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... wasn't THAT long ago....was it? So imagine my surprise when I convince

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023