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• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  . Unfortunately, I can no longer drink the boba that’s normally sold in MIT ... up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... stomach cancer, I found out. She was diagnosed with ductal breast cancer in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... 'm only doing all of these things in the first place is because i care about ... die. i'm literally writing this in public trying my best not to cry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to ... ’ve dated at MIT. (I don’t get it either.) Masha makes wraps in WILG’s tiny

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... process was Not Fun. I can certainly agree with that when looking at the ... -- just the other day, I was talking with Matt in the admissions office

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  -students. Oops. Sorry! I took some screenshots for your benefit, just so you can get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... Wonderfriends in Walker. Go go gadget radio! Hanna and I play obscure music with ... admissions office, just because I can. (Hi, Nance.) 2 PM - 18.03 lecture. 3

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps ... buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can ... Institute. In the meantime, I'm polishing up a nice spot on my hand, where I ... Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  buy tickets (tickets released at 10am ET and I was very much in Hawai'i ... overwhelmed, I am so in love with art and music, I am so in love with life, and ... college that I just laid down in my bed, face flat on the bed, sobbing as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Psh, that's not so many stairs! I'm in good shape, I can do that no ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... , guess what country I'm in: Looks like Europe, doesn't it! For a second

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion ... bathroom or living in a 115 sq ft brick oven coffin (Macgregor <3). I ... things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my ... I resisted getting Starbucks. In any case, right when I was beginning to think that I'd never get home in time for Christmas (this happened

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  The 2014 Engineers were the winningest (real word!) MIT football team ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  postdoctoral biology student. "Now I feel like I can mess with my chocolate a little more. I can just add more palmitic acid, and it will solidify a little more." Palmitic acid, she said, is just palm oil, which she can buy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I ... an unsuspecting victim in STS.001. But I the single most memorable moment this video that I watched, oh, I guess about five years ago today in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure ... crisis. Literally. I know it's only freshmen fall, but I can't help but ... , with a minor in biomedical engineering. Then, that changed when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  together in a context different from the usual frantic "I must get work ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  , programming, and video games. I can't wait to see what they do in the future ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I remembered. When the CodeIt application opened up in late August, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020