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• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  concerned when I opened the rice bag one day and something came flying at me, spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... think nothing of it, because I wasn't wearing my glasses. It took me a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  ’s, because—back when we worked on campus—he sat at the desk behind me and could ... me from designing web concepts of my own? Of course not. Like any good ... Twins.[/caption] It was a lot easier for me to focus on sharpening my UI

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  came out last week. bojack makes me feel a lot of things in a way that i ... while. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="854"] me after binging ... for me since i've been watching his youtube videos since middle school

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  had a minor panic attack because my public transit app told me that the ... me and the other interns waiting in line to get in[/caption] [caption ... everybody turned out to have the same goal as me and EVERYBODY booked it to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  27,960 miles flown. $0 spent (by me). How? Through purely anecdotal ... -win-win to me. Shameless plug: You can read a story from my time here. [caption id="attachment_41912" align="aligncenter" width="768"] me, my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  caused me to take 6.042: Math for Computer Science and 6.006: Algorithms ... experience there is what inspired me to take the other two, although I had no ... the communities I’m now a part of are beloved to me, but I definitely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... someone who they are." That resounded with me, because that's why I love to ... . you-know-what out of me. I don't even remember the last time I drew a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... at me about how the world is a constrained optimization problem (oh, my family) and me wondering, "what are the weights?" a final thought: keep

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  like to hear me talk about getting to MIT and my last days at home then ... the world to me. I have always been one of those guys that loved to question the world around me; however, in day to day life it is often hard to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  what this place was and what you would all one day mean to it (and to me ... , and it probably took me until fall 2014 before i started feeling 'like ... could really synthesize who i had been and what the Institute had made me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  way of weighing which one would be better for me. On one hand, I had the ... days, and one morning it became clear to me. As I was meditating early ... me that I should accept the job offer. After all, it was a great

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  count. The result has been really quite nice for me. I'm easily ... end up like me :P First come classes. I'm taking three and a half ... the Boston Marathon bombings. It's also forcing me to write, an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... dawning on me with weight, the fact that my freshman year is over. And it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  manageable pieces.  Our first assignment is to build a "Mini Me" robot that can ... has the advantage of letting me avoid the bottleneck of waiting for ... quickly. Here's what that means for me: I'm able to design, fabricate, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled ... told me that I should meet Ashley at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The theater ... !") but we squeezed and "sorry! excuse me!"d our way in. Flipping through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  during first semester, and he got me a tryout! I had my first competition ... great, and they have helped me so much with improving over time. I went ... ! This really meant a lot to me, and I can’t wait to spend the next year on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So here, by popular demand (okay, like 6 prefrosh contacted me.  My ... healthier) food, and save money.  A week's groceries costs me around $60, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  , rather traditional family to judge me hardcore. This recent, good one ... /jpmoore/the-best-gifs-of-the-nfls-fourth-week b. Farting around with people who very strangely put up with me ... Nerf Guns or me doing very obnoxious things like blasting Fleetwood Mac

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  . Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my ... myself that I wanted MIT to take me apart and make me better. The past year ... ’ve reevaluated what I look for in friends and in myself. It took me an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  to me, it's not about acting. Fundamentally, it's about being ... something. GEL has taught me that this can mean the difference between killing ... , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012