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

  

  and that's not the point!"]50 more rectangles.[/annotation] Kind of a ... learning the [annotation note="how long to cook a steak, what spices work ... constants in all of these recipes, not to be confused with chemical formulas

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I ... committee by feeling which muscles are tight, and how tight they are. I am not ... , and try to structure our non-admissions related work (like redesigning a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  or Cambridge area you should know it's not because I'm just that ... 're talking about the pathology too much, we're not talking about the character ... am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  here for the sake of argument). We could build a working admissions ... . Then again, I'd probably not sleep very well if this is all I did. And ... think and experential echo chambers. At that point, it's not a college as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... of shenanigans with my friends. Fortunately, summer and my 9-5 work ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  celebrity units. I'm not always the one asking the question, of course - I don ... Negroponte = "Measure of perspective, not IQ" Stephen Colbert = "Ball" John ... due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  , working alone or in tandem, that happened my freshman fall might have ... none of them. It’s a disease, and it’s not one that discriminates. Here ... that I didn’t feel anything, not fear, not panic, in response. How

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  they were mentioned (many were not). I did not leave anyone out who ... (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  our chairman for telling us about the ice cream when we're not permitted to have any until 8pm. I mean, it's issue night and he drew working ... 's not even ice cream; it's ice cream cake. 8:22pm: Several people inquire

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  internationally, does not insist that you declare a major when you apply. This is a ... certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the ... . I'm certainly not trying to pawn off my indecision entirely on our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  first conversation, since it is closer to a complete end. This is not to ... not a strictly complete description of the philosophy at hand; in fact ... [annotation note="this is not equivalent to hedonism (picking the fastest route

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  -wizard tournament that is MIT. You all have worked so hard up to this point, finding ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next ... . If you’re deferred, it’s not the end of the road. Recollect, continue

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by ... mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... 're not clumsy or stupid anymore. My clumsy stupid step in 2012 was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  than that one, but not by much. I was pretty hosed then and I'm pretty ... "social media" (by which I mean uh... Slack? Tumblr? let's not talk about ... text as I walk and try not to drop anything. 10.28 am: I check the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  started work/research the next day! Sounds exhilarating and somewhat ... , surprisingly enough. One regret I have is not planning my classes properly before ... from Singapore, who are currently studying or working abroad in England

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not ... fifth-degree polynomial, because it's well-known that work varies as the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  the drinking fountain, and not the fire hydrant.) [caption id ... in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  .096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanted to. Have you gotten any work done? Not as much as I wanted to ... One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  -to-earth, big dreamers, and hard-working. But they were also realistic. They knew ... of a gap year, worrying over whether or not my recommenders spelled my ... ? Rest assured, it's not impossible. I know a number of pre-med students

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012