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  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  this really cool way of thinking of about a million things at once, have ... , the glass on the front of the factory was laser etched with Mr. Potato ... my coverage of the Hasbro world headquarters ends because we weren

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  total budget at the top of this list. Make it your goal not to exceed it ... on top of all of that, financial challenges can make this exponentially harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... (Note of warning: this entry may be short, because I seriously

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you maybe can tell by now, I love whiteboards. Like, I-have-spent-thousands-of-hours-working-at ... thoughts. At MIT, I found a world filled with vast expanses of chalkboards ... this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a ... time I spend on each one. Then I just kind of stared at the numbers. They ... part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LOOK AT MY NOTION!!!!!! 🌱 my notion is very pretty. i spent 5 entire days on it so pls notice…

  

  bonus: my pinterest page for notion pictures the homepage of my notion, establishing a strong theme of "green" more of my home page! goals are just classes from this iap…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  football game once, on television, at a party. There were lots of adults in ... at-risk youth. He was later found guilty on 45 of 48 charges. The media ... still is grasping at the moral, peaceful way of life we’ve grown used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  humanities major of some sort. I’ve been sad that at MIT I haven’t dabbled in ... learned that lots of people at MIT don’t carry their keys and just leave ... phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  since I’ve been at MIT, I’ve felt like I’ve been really on top of ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri-is-not-good-at ... first day of school in the United States, at the start of third grade, was ... I was doing. Regardless of whether or not you end up at MIT, I hope

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  . I still don't regret it at all. This idea of picking and choosing ... but laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of it all. For instance, whenever ... deals with a lot of dumbasses at work, and it would drain her energy far

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the ... to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Joshua Bell at Boston's Symphony Hall It's kind of hard to know what to ... . Done. Ah, the joys of being an Arts Scholar at MIT. I'm going to miss ... him?) decided to show off two of his talents at the same time by playing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  , staring at the white of the screen contrasted by the surrounding darkness of ... . Remember that at the end of the day, after shipping out your tiny bottles of ... -clack of my fingers, as they smacked against the keys. The glare of the TV

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , cory's desk/bed at right, caleb's bed at left On the right corner of ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... , and I hang a lot of stuff on my bedpost. There's also a lot of artwork

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  hours of sleep and crawled out of bed this morning at 6 AM. One group ... same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  station (along with half of London, it seemed) I heard at least five or six ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next to my sister, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  spent at least an hour going through a massive checklist of everything in ... When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students ... uneventful." My 4 pm-11 pm shift this past Sunday agrees with about 2/3 of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... year, his defense of latkes resorted to significant mudslinging. At one ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008