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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  tutor some students in physics, and I would then head home. Here, the day ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... student’s plate is hefty enough. Every morning I would catch the bus at 5

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  him, no "Wayne Corp. makes my stuff, I just buy it", Tony Stark designs ...   Most of my entries center around things I've learned or experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so ... . In fact, I don't think I'd ever had any sort of Mexican food beyond the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... 've done some pretty stupid things in lab. Case in point: I've cracked ... out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the ... ’s summer in Brazil, so I brought mostly shorts and crop tops. I have not had time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  Maddie and I think that going to the Toy Fair would, in all seriousness, be ... more release info then. Keep in mind, I was in a very toy-oriented mood ... 2:00 AM we would take the bus from South Station to Chinatown in New

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  leaves. I would go on walks in the middle of the day, after work, and ask ... anyway, so I took a day off and hoped it would go away. But it didn't, and ... the thought of running five miles one morning. I would hope my roommates

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  chemistry on your own! A quick introduction to my recent kitchen escapades: I have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores ... and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  , that she would make for me and serve hot. She soaked the dried beans in water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in ... in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 ... I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... placing it in the drying rack, I head back upstairs and grab my laptop ... house, looking for people to bother. I spot Noah in the basement. "What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher ... theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more ... due to that class in particular. Going into 18.100, I saw the material

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to use git—which in itself would have justified the summer. I learned a ... I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... lock in my major—meaning I could change direction if I didn’t enjoy my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  together so I could culture myself in the world of eateries. We ended up ... the way, I saw a wind turbine, which made me happy because everything in ... wondering why it’s been so long since I last updated you with anything. It

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  the best example of this would be my first few days in my Chinese I ... honest, I could try to write about everything that has happened in this last week or so since I have arrived at MIT, but that would most likely

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  official start of the race, around 1am. I didn’t feel the event would get the ... -to-back days to qualify for the official race, so we did rather dandy I would say ... ,[/annotation] Mcpherson, KS, Dodge City, KS, [annotation note="Nimby, I don't think we're in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021