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  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  working in admissions was nowhere on my radar. When I was in my senior year ... awareness of jobs in higher education, I applied to positions in admissions ... my job are pretty similar. I love stories, and I believe so much in the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... pieces. I found "seafood" in one piece that Sam thought tasted like "olives

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... semester off and accept a 6-month position in Apple's iPhone Product Design ... struggling early in the semester.  I worry because freshman year was by far my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from ... books signed. Sadly, I found out about it too late and I was in class ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... topic I last saw in 18.03 (Differential Equations). 9.14 (Brain Structure ... There are two or three backlogged entries that I want/need to write

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... MIT and I'm pretty sure you don't want to live in a Baker dodectuple. ;)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  the CS/math majors I know are in this class, including a '14 down my ... not enough for you I have five sessions of job interviews in the next ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT ... "LP" or any shorter name - I don't know why). If you live in southern ... bawled her eyes out. Her husband (my brother-in-law) and I made fun of her

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have ... hottest fucking mess in existence right now. I've spent a lot of time ... yeah I guess my mental isn't currently in the best place right now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  Last weekend I posted an entry on my birthday, sharing some things I have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... prepare to send decisions out in ~12 hours. I may close comments later today ... can talk about stuff you do that you might have included in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The Game. This was my first time in all four years that I'd been at MIT that ... thing, but I think we decided that the more clever competition was in the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  in an email: I've definitely felt like doing this before.... ... Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... , and best overall. Can anyone guess which category I entered my pumpkin in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... location, which saw about 93% coverage. I'll be using this in my classes in a ... Robert and I roadtripped to Bangor, Maine, to see totality in Millinocket

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in ... nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a ... in a Baker House lounge. I thought, hey, might as well get that AP Lit

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  before spring break. I'm super stressed. I don't know what is going on in one class, or make that three. I just took a test and I'm not sure ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my new banner. (That, and I've hit a creative roadblock.) I am ... the artist whose design I choose, *and* send you some MIT memorabilia in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  with me here, but I don't really count grilled sandwiches from Alpine in ... were lots of dumb people getting in the way, so I didn't really get any ... The other day I realized that I'm always bragging about the one time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone ... leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010