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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting ... the rest of the talking. https://youtu.be/vdCQoajVQds Hope your road ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  the seven of eight floors that have colorful ceilings, separated by ... the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it ... , from the bottom of my heart: good luck! Black Hole kitchen         

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  the class of 2011 has been admitted and half of my freshman year is done ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  had reported the same level of satisfaction with their lives. I'm sorry ... . And to those of you who get waitlisted: Waiting's hard, yes. But the ... get off the waitlist, and you could be one of them :) To everyone: As

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... MISTI, is BEFORE THE END OF FALL SEMESTER. Before the end of fall semester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder ... your own essays, you’ll just fill in the gaps of information that someone

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song ... should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... ", referring to hookup culture or the general idea of casual relationships ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... Facebook statuses to the irritatingly unpredictable nature of MIT printers

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... of them, definitely. And it isn’t that every day in the middle was ... . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  . - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... MIT student didn't die! 2:06 -- Most of the students here are seniors ... ." is the core mission of MIT. An example are the OLPCs people signed in

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  ’s a sign of aging, I guess, but I now think that staying all day in the ... , because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the ... could go to the Museum of Fine Arts and talk about all the artwork. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the ... . “It’s a remember things thing.” It keeps track of recipes, finances, the ... . Luckily TextWrangler was able to resuscitate the text of the file sans

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012