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  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  should I take or activities should I be involved in? There is no one answer ... and recommendations highlighted in the Turning the Tide report, and I ... process, and I thought I would address those topics here. I think there is a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager ... shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often ... in that I had a bed there and my clothes were there, but I was so young

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I ... dorm? Do you just get put in randomly? Because I would really like to ... been in advanced math classes (I'll have taken through differential

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  both cornerstones of my experience in Taipei last summer. i got this ... dozens of these sometime early in the year, so i grabbed 3(rd) and put them ... our floor's massive merch order that came sometime in IAP. i bought a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  , etc." "meal plan is so overpriced" "I try to only eat in the dining ... things cost adult-living-in-a-major-city prices. On one hand, I want to go full-crazy I'm-totally-living-in-like-Friends-or-Sex-and-the-City and go

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  Chicago back in 1987. I'm not going to link the video here though because it ... ’s something both sad and beautiful about...everything in this, I guess. It's a ... If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  about 40-50 students, so I figured 60 students would be a safe guess for ... I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like ... awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... , we would accept any current teacher for the B Evaluation. I also get ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the ... Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  lively interest in the matter, and I think will help it substantially. I am sorry, my dear brother, that I can give no reliable good news in ... , I think, of the free States in general, will refuse a compromise which

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  person would consider young: safe to say they’re in their twenties and ... far out in line that no store light shines upon my head. instead, i ... is salt ramen. i think that’s the magic tonkotsu, of using bone in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... anything isn’t clear, let me know in the comments or by email, and Petey or I ... It's July again, which means that: I started a co-op Stardew

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the ... archives!" Boo hoo. I've read and tagged them all in four days. Don't be a ... traditional advising, and I turned out just fine. In a more practical sense

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in ... tent in the dark, did some reading (I'm most of the way through this) and ... 're actually doing okay; I dumped them in the bathtub when I got home. Definitely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at ... possible before returning to campus. I want to share what I learned in my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  assignment systems. It’s still very much in the works, but I hope to talk more ... Coryat scores and how I do in different categories. It’s helping me ... 2020, I continued a tradition started in 2019 where ESP members went to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In ... if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... important. In the vein of what I said about not writing an unconventional

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  .370: Robocraft Now the one I'm most familiar with is Robocraft since my roommate ... strategy (hopefully those extra hours will pay off). So I entered 26-100 after exiting lab and found the lecture hall in a standing room only

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006