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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the ... again in the evening. I like oatmeal. You can add walnuts and bananas and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  importance. {oscilloscope photo credit to Banti G. '17}  I can speak ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... couches on which I can crash, whether I'm visiting Haifa or Tel Aviv or ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  'll never know what you can accomplish until you push yourself. I also found ... I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons ... things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department ... they could read. These are people that can identify airplanes on sight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... ."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... love, I think is a very important goal, and something that can’t be done ... there’s no way a few people can do it alone.“   “I’m here because I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  their sun, moon, and rising signs so that I can give them an "astrological ... ambitious people I know. And during the college application process, this can ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  .S. Armed Forces). I am fortunate enough to know all of our current transfer ... our transfer community with the blogs, I asked [annotation note ... cohort[/annotation]to reflect on their experience. I’m sharing the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024