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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  biology does help a bit, as in the case of removing small bones from a whole ... diced mushrooms to make a mushroom sauce. Add marinade from the sous ... here’s another guest post from my friend, jacky. he cooks. he’s really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  the other day working on puzzles from the latest p&a magazine. i ... series on scp, and binged a bunch of videos from brian jordan alvarez the ... this was a mistake. it feels as if my work is tearing my body apart, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  things as they come to me. :P I graduated with a 4.7 GPA from MIT, or 3 ... actually very rarely study from a textbook ever again...for most MIT classes ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... Salvador Luria Ivan Getting '33 was a primer developer of GPS Bose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  % from all of that a cappella texting, so I sit in my room and charge it for a few minutes. 12.52 pm: Caragay and I head out from EC. Our lunch ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  protect your fingers from the world at a cost. They restrict motion and ... when the nerves in a part of the body are prevented from transmitting ... weird, for me to ask this. From the outside, I guess, I could look like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... Thursday nights, I usually use hints obtained from my TA at Thursday ... : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  "leaning in" comes from a piece of writing by my good friend Avery N. ‘22 ... from a job in finance that he really didn’t like. I learn that another ... could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A ... walked away from that mirror, and took a shower. When I came out (ha ha ... ’s anything you take away from this story, it’s that shame is really not a fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  from this post, just know that getting deferred is not a personal ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  last well into the morning. Don't let a little drowsiness stop you from ... events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  MINUTES AND NO ONE HAS GREETED HER! SHE'S FROM A SMALL TOWN IN THE MIDWEST ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old virtual stomping grounds; I've missed you a lot. I like what you've done

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds ... 's just you, Marion, a division of one! Dying from mnestic overdose, two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice ... varies widely, and a twelve-unit class can average you anywhere from four

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I ... this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced ... out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  seen. Seems like a really kind person from essays and letters of ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019