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  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  morning just couldn't compare, although my tour guide seemed to know Jack as ... Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was ... us banded together and decided on our goals: to have as much fun as

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time ... important to me, and I try very hard to make time to maintain my relationships

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... group or club. It’s important to keep in mind that while some anxious ... that I regularly need around 8 hours to feel functional and not take

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour-by-hour ... yet here I am, struggling to remember just exactly where I was 2 years ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  balance of all the things that are important to me."  Favorite sport ... comes to mind might be math competitions, chess matches, or some form of ... ."]NCAA[/annotation]National Championships, the NCAA Woman of the Year (which is given to the top female

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  a wet towel and let sit for a few hours FILLING (VEGETARIAN ... . ginger is important. garlic can also be nice chop everything up into ... too add soy sauce and sesame oil to taste (optional) FILLING (MEAT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  down to it, the most important thing will be personal experiences. If ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... stakeholders, each of varying levels of importance, and use our best judgment to ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  fortune cookies, punctuation and capitalization and all. It was important to ... post.)"]here we go again.[/annotation] CJ: Why does it have to be "oh ... in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  everyone knows your name (and probably your dog’s, too). It is important to ... science lab with proper equipment requires a two-hour drive to the nearest ... something we pay attention to, it’s important to know that this isn’t about

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m the new 8.012 tutor! blah blah blah

  

  Come to my "office hours"! LOL  

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  myself when I just didn’t know something, and, most importantly, to know how to fail. Perhaps even more importantly, I always found something ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  set out to learn the art of scheduling, and the importance of having ... had hoped to follow this schedule to the T every day and hour, but that ... -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  varies from day to day, hour to hour, but i really do think that i am ... , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  small school) within 16 hours, and I wasn’t even sure if I was going to ... High School." Now I’m starting to realize (and, more importantly, accept ... didn’t refine my short answers for hours or give them to a second party

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one ... extended period of time, causing my 6 AM flight to leave an hour late, and ... am! I'm making an important point here!) Or, to quote my post in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?"   I'm glad you asked!  As a lifelong Californian before I went to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  to office hours or join study groups. To this day, I regret doing that ... going to office hours. I got to meet a bunch of cool people, and I got a ... to procrastinate. Give me reasons to procrastinate by asking me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  didn't register it was a dorm on the MIT Guide to Residence page and ... herself. I began to unpack. A couple hours later I didn't actually run into ... . She usually arrived back to the dorm in the wee early hours of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019