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Blog / How to Food
Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders
One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall -
Blog / Athletics
How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process
for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... between 2018 and 2021, so keep in mind that some of my experience may be -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel
Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in
it was all worth when I was offered the role of Bobby! I was so hyped ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post-show depression :( If you’ve poured your life into some sort of seasonal activity -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'
to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited ... that what I'm more worried about is letting my whirlwind of stressful ... mixture of self-aware rambling and MIT things to exercise my Internet -
Blog / Academics & Research
2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.
: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly ... 's wonderful, right?) "That sounds wonderful to me!" As a result of that e -
Blog / MIT Life
When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)
what kind of frat culture you are looking for MIT can offer you something ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets
This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda
="aligncenter" width="171"] It do be like that sometimes[/caption] Cream soda was one of ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one -
Blog / Announcements
To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love
lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students ... public interest, the educational trajectories of our prospective students ... moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Seven Early Evenings it was a good week
't attempted in years. MIT is one of a few universities with its own ice rink ... (Boston's subway system) but I was carrying a lot of luggage full of winter ... final version of the magazine we worked on this semester! It took several -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)
's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.
To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at ... , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in -
Blog / Advice
and i’d do it again differently
.701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the ... were utterly confused, now makes sense. and at the end of every semester -
Blog / Miscellaneous
browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone
a University of New Mexico Physics site, but I'm glad it is "Sonnet ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever -
Blog / Academics & Research
‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record
took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure how I felt. It was this strange mixture of disbelief and excitement. My -
Blog / Admissions
Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.
surprising pulpit of a university famous for its overachievers, she has become ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... 's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Week 1 ...of Year 2.
free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... stations connect to malls, each of which seems to connect to five more. My -
Blog / Academics & Research
Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p
One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... [annotation note="One of the most eventful days of the UROP, haha"]random day