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  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 / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of ... years of urgent deadlines (Test! Lab of Doom! 4 PSETS! 2 Tests!), I seem

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• 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…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic

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

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  their ECs while they are at MIT and continue in the role of teacher when ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... the seven of eight floors that have colorful ceilings, separated by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... , albeit reasonable expectations of its applicants. Chris Peterson put it ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  lapping the edge of the ice, and two of the nutria nibble at grass and one ... thirty of them at a long table, and I wanted to sit next to everyone ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing ... strip every couple of posts, if I think of a joke or something.

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... . People at MIT don't compare GPAs (I didn't know any of my friends' GPAs ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  admissions. The two of us were sitting down at Rockin' Rogers enjoying ... becomes serious. I spend a lot of time at MIT very stressed, this semester ... other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... Ashmont or Braintree (the two branches at the bottom of the rightmost map ... you’re past the gates go up the stairs on your left.   At the top of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  the terrain diagram, many of the springs are at points of locally high ... I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather ... ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  them from Mr. Neha constantly throughout the year. At the beginning of ... you'll need to either bring it home or store it at the end of the year ... functionality of a desktop with the portability of a laptop! Starting at $1999

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... female figure in my life and still (even being at MIT!) the smartest person

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017