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  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when ... rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a ... many different types (and amounts) of essay questions, ranging from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring of advice from a wide variety of students and alumni and brings up a

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ...  http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... that may never happen. My heart is broken for Boston and the victims of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can ... being on break has let me catch up with some of my closest friends, make

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off ... this) But after stuffing our pockets full of Snickers, Crunches, and ... around.  And so we trudged, stomachs full of chocolate and minds full of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of ... admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of ... big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... , especially in summer. Here are my picks: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... ’d totally rock an MIT-themed Family Feud episode. What do all of those have

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own creativity. I really like cooking. It is kind of fun to look in your pantry

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... lot of people have been having final projects due this week. Outside ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a ... Steer Roast as an extreme barbeque: instead of grilling hamburgers and hot

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality. Most of the time, the issue was due to my own ineptitude, but the fact

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all ... magazine article that one of the admissions counselors had found. The article

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008