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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... this is absolutely not true—the food here is bad but not everyone who ... pray that you do. A few key facts about me that may or may not provide

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  rarely received packages of any sort, so I was pretty curious. Not being a ... fast approaching, so I hastily worked on my Common Application, and sent ... —who worked in an educational sector of the United States Embassy. So after I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... dorms. Wait, why is East Campus far away from the other dorms? It's not ... (click to enlarge): You'll also notice that the Lewis report calls not

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  asking about their work. A little more on this specialization resentment ... whether the Higgs boson exists or not, or the universe has an open or closed ... profession? Maybe that means science research isn't right for me? That I'm not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  the social time I had everywhere and nowhere. Dashing around, not ... literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... the people I would work with. Many of the latter became the former (MIT

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are ... -climbing team so badly. I wanted to work alongside others, imbibe a bit of their ... being deferred but that it's not okay to lose faith. Every year, thousands

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... projects on which I'm working and write my dissertation, which I'll defend in ... on his office's 3D printer (picture, which does not really do justice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... , for better or worse, I did not change into the sellout Desai warned of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment ... joining a sorority, you not only join that community, but the entire Greek ... not a single mistake was made in terms of lines, time, and schedules, we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  reaction, though it may not necessarily be strong enough to prevent the ... life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... forward or backward at a particular moment. But that tends not to happen in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... concerns, I really do think that numbers are not as important you might think

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  difficult for those who may not even realize the immense potential of ... school can support those who may not have easy access to the numerous ... tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  see people not only enjoy the dish, but also learn how to make it ... dinners. Not only had I never made it for nearly that many people before ... served hot, if it is, I will just vomit, if not I can scarf it. SI

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  that you can drop out now. But you know it’s not true. You can’t leave. They won’t let you. You’re not sure who ‘they’ are, but you know you ... roof of the Stata Center leaks continually, even when it’s not raining

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  always tell yourself that you’re not going to overwork. That you’re going to choose to be happy, choose not to overload yourself with coursework, choose not to hang out with people who are academically intense. But these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  elderly-person advice. (Although I am not as old as a postdoc in my lab who ... class of 2016 myself. After working for two years in Boston, I'm moving ... food that has fallen on the floor; you're not as sneaky as you think you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  "] CAD model of our fort.[/caption] We started work on the morning of ... our margin of error and chose to proceed with starting work on the ... parallelize multiple groups of prefrosh working at the same time to get those

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... explaining "Chechnya Is Not the Czech Republic”, next to immigration debate

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... again—on walks to and from work, at my desk while writing, and lying in ... on the way it has been moving on—continuously, and whether or not I am

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  freshmen who were already good at calculus, the Economics class worked out ... assignment. Back home, depression and mental health is not something people talk openly about. I’m not even sure it’s something that’s talked about

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018