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Blog / How to Food
How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible
of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... variety of diets. They all offer cheaper options and discounts for first ... on the presence or absence of dining (unless cost is an important -
Blog / How to Human
Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.
of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high ... . (Hey, speaking of my sleep statistics -- (awesome) Professor Wolfe, who -
Blog / Challenges
Unity
, but do you go regarding each new person you meet with some degree of ... Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of ... simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything but noteworthy -
Blog / Life after MIT
Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19
previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event ... undergraduates were sent home last March. I was frustrated that so much of my ... 's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting
of downtown Boston. I knew that this semester would be particularly tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I ... with a total of[annotation note="these also have associated numbers -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper
with STEM degrees, and only 3% of all women continue working in related ... the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... then had it disbanded because of problematic school administrators? Do -
Blog / How to Human
re-orienting REX et al.
offer, instead of focusing on what it requires you to give. When I was ... earlier return in case of limited flight availability or other extenuating circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and -
Blog / MIT Life
Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it
of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of -
Blog / Admissions
9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)
, MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that -
Blog / Events
Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!
the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold -
Blog / Admissions
Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.
without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody, but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college -
Blog / Academics & Research
Back to work
CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 -
Blog / MIT Life
I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…
) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed -
Blog / Academics & Research
Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.
but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was -
Blog / Athletics
walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science
learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you can optimize walking significantly when armed with basic knowledge of -
Blog / IAP
Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23
. Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work -
Blog / Academics & Research
January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music
Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to -
Blog / Extracurriculars
V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers
you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to