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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... for print, my first time (at least since college apps) working under a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  . 3. serving it for a spice competition (CPW event) [caption id ... [/caption] This sophomore year, I was roped into making the dish for a [annotation ... .  Voila! Serve with Jasmine rice and a sunny side egg for full authenticity

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... shape wide-reaching policy and to advocate for undergraduates was a ... different committee last year, we also created a feedback form and forum for a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... Comm 2020 loves you!!) and a student-facing-business-person-that-works-for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... with the tortilla on the side could last me for a solid two meals. After

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... right before they came out, checked, felt happy, went back to sleep for a ... myself in. When I told her, she was super excited and jumped with me for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... haikus for the haikubot I have so many questions for this bot, if it was a ... gay heart the gay heart is a device for confucious to tell haikus that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution ... players and be done with it? For a football team, why not choose all the biggest players? Or the fastest? For a band why would it matter if you had

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... actually very rarely study from a textbook ever again...for most MIT classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... at each other without making eye contact for a few minutes. “I don ... understanding of our fields, a fantastic tolerance for failure and late nights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  recommendations.” The Faculty did not “regard him as a candidate for graduation the ... Hartford District Committee for MIT alumni. Holman’s life is the dream for a ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... other one lasts for weeks at a time, without reason or pattern behind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It ... right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... , for "Technology Broadcasting System," when it was discovered that a ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008