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• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  involvement that used to happen in the blog comments now takes place elsewhere ... ’s mission and role in people’s lives. So that's one thing that I'd like to ... college, I'm now beginning to feel "old" in that I realize my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  little... hypocritical, I know. But it happens. It's very easy to get sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  potatoes. What did my mom have to endure to get to her favorite pizza in the ... in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... starring in "The Man With The Screaming Brain," he also found time to write

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into ... think in new and creative ways to optimize problems that relate not only

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a ... different, and you get to choose which one you live in. I now think this is ... being in a small program is a really easy way to get to know professors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some ... in another way, so there are too many variables to tell what caused our ... , so we boiled them to get them to the texture from the video. But our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  was another huge success and an easy way to get involved in charity at ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... enough to participate in both in very different ways... SK Late Night

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In ... . More Things to Do Before You Graduate: 1. Participate in Dorm Rush (or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Brady's house, tried to get into some tall buildings, but it was like 1 in ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several ... who avoided going on the hike decided to simply walk around in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the advertisements on your spam folder page in Gmail.) 5. Write thank-you letters to ... 't matter whether or not they directly helped you get in; these people helped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you. We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... stop chasing perfection. I wanted to talk about moving in, finally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would ... T to HMart with my little grocery tote in hand. Walking across the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  :00 . . . that's AM, in case this isn't clear, which it probably isn't to my ... prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a ... If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  every circle’s circumference to its diameter is exactly pi: in other words ... [/latex] gets at an even more fundamental relationship that is present in circles ... [/latex] in total), and we'll get the area of the circle! However, this sum is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... dodge drunks in urine-filled street corners and go to sleep when the ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  advance. Get their phone number. Arrange to check in and coordinate your ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011