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  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  again! I can't say I regret the intensity of the emotions I experienced in ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... behind silver and gold no one can see   I am from memories

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge ... used their address. I used Gmail so I'd just go to Gmail.com and log in ... type a couple of commands, which I detail in the next video. There you

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  unlike any other school in the world. As a freshman, you can work in the ... finally meet a lot of you. You are all awesome and I can't wait to see your ... , Bryan's blog is way more thorough than I can ever hope to be, so check it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... have so much more life experience than my kids have and I can envision ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  this year. Q. I'm not a super-genius. Can I still survive at MIT? A ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  , they're mailing regular decisions out tomorrow! I can feel you shivering ... like, two-thirds of the way up the block, and I was pretty dumb in high ... . Anyway, she didn't really say anything, when I walked in, but merely thrust

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in ... My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and basically three finals stand between between me and the summer! (i have them

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  volts - he blogged about it in one of his entries, but I can't find it cuz ... - sorry I can't find a public domain pic that I can post). In very much the ... playing in the background to keep from falling asleep), I completed my epic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  with Prajna and Jyotsna and since I can't talk about that in moderation ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  introduction--unless of course you've never heard of him, in which case I'll just ... which case I'll probably be too embarrassed to blog about it. In other not-lecture-related news, I moved into Senior Haus (much more on this in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that SaveTFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... then, in that very moment, that I had zero clue as to what to expect. I  had never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack in its entirety. I knew as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  MIT folks and wherever else MIT folks. I bet one of you is in space ... wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the ... ability and built-in memory. I know, because we have tested it and retested

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017