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  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  and I woke up at the crack of dawn to catch the [annotation note ... almost all of our supplies. After those forty minutes at Trader Joe’s, we ... there were another 36 on hand), boiling 12 packets of udon all at the same

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• 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 bombing and are both in serious condition, at http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of

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

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets, shirts, buttons, dinners, posters,, CDs, etc. One of these citizens of P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  go to bed at 2:03 AM and wake up at 9:10 AM. Of course, my sleeping ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  left under the auspices of lab scientists at MIT's world ... by none other than my floor (Loop). At Random, each floor consists of ... machines at Random get fixed. Stay tuned for the story of my four

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  I live at Burton Conner (W51), at 410 Memorial Drive, along the Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  collect those big envelopes you'll be waiting at your mailbox for. Many of ... 's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the ... fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films ... A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  +/- .5 C at 1000 psi today after three solid days of calibration. Now I can ... deserve some props, and dare I say mad props at that, for genuinely improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  . ***ATS = Association of Taiwanese Students. I am neither Taiwanese nor an association of any sort, but thanks to ATS, I'm now Taiwanese by association ... all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The ... idol lived at the end of her career. I soaked in the weather, the sight ... the top left corner of the room, looked at the book in my hand, and then

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... your (Lulu's?) numbers, since at least half of the Physics majors I ... distribution. Then again, the mere existence of a group at MIT dedicated to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  is by yours truly, Advice: "If at the end of the application process ... . ----- My second piece of advice, which I came up with at the info session a ... you may be at another school." MIT Admissions knows which types of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  's conclusion at the end of a lengthy economic analysis.)   ...and ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , compelling portrait of what kind of student and person I was at age 18. If I ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012