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  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Caution: this post is probably NSFW. Two Decembers ago, when I was just a babby sophomore, my floor had a gingerbread decorating party. It was one of a series of…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  mit is sunny and then rainy and then sunny again –   two weeks ago i was leaving seattle, thinking about summertime and trying not to be anxious about returning…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  My thesis is done. It is 384 pages long, 2.0833% of them text, 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code.         Here is potato soup,…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then Boston, and Somerville—the vines and…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  This past Thursday on my birthday my floor BMF organized that week’s Random Hall weekly-ish study break. In honor of Pi Day Irina O. ’15 and Luisa B. ’16 baked…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend. Relatives flew in from everywhere, and were seen passing through East Campus halls with their hushed student-children. All over…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  the impossible, with the help of numerous people including Erin K. '16

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I’m spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I’ve decided I’m in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

    Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese, garlic cheddar,…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I’ve been wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened!…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  online event hosted by the famous Mollie (a.k.a. molliebatmit), a 2006

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You’re amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope, just didn’t shower? Me too. But seriously,…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  MIT’s neighboring area, Kendall Square, has historically never had as many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the area has recently become home to…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  [I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to leave it alone…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I’m way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I’m mostly excited. Excited to get fitted for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  Requirements (a.k.a. introductory math, physics, chemistry, biology

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  away, Sam '07 is never far from me! Along the 10K (6.2 mile) walk, we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  weekend, please join the 10K event. We leave from the eastern end of Golden

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006