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• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  So I was going to draft this entry last night (I went as far as typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting ... daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  so hopeless. I don't know how to process it any more than I already ... on in my life, let alone how to write about it." A lot has changed in ... 've been learning how to knit! I've gotten pretty far in terms of my crochet

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office ... this morning and wonder why you were rescheduled to a different location ... MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  too add soy sauce and sesame oil to taste (optional) FILLING (MEAT ... to taste (optional) WRAP THE DUMPLINGS: when the dough has settled ... dough-snakes into pebble-sized dough nodules use a rolling pin to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never ... I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I've made my triumphant - but temporary - return to the blogs because 1

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... miraculin stays bound to our taste buds—fifteen to thirty minutes. The maximum

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... , "life after college" is a scary but also exciting topic to think about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... Dubstep. Okay, so someone please tell how this is any better than music from ... great place to work and be a student. 1. MIT is very diverse -with no

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  time to do it I'm pretty hosed (I leave exactly how hosed as an exercise ... Some friends and I were chatting the other day, marveling at how ... not, well that's what I'm going to blame it on. At any rate, the past

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on ... rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in retrospect, it might have been better to use vegetable stock because beef stock

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT ... people’s questions if you really want to see them answered. Seriously

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  't quite learn how to disentangle foreground from background (i.e CJ ... how to render shoulders, which it gradually learned to compensate for by ... forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  would it take for the egg to hatch?" or "how do you know there's no baby ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  use all that to better inform how I approach my work within Course 6 ... To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  option, as kind of an experiment, to see how it would be like to take ... class together! Not all twins are like this, but we just happened to ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  definitely thinking about how to graduate on time if this was as seriously ... was feeling pretty awful. But I’m glad that I at least knew how to go ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  stuff - and how it connects to the work I've done this summer - it's sadly ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just ... evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a ... when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... and learn about control systems, feedback loops, and attempt to drown

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  made that year, and how they continue to affect my life today. Without a ... freshman was choosing to join a fraternity. It was, in retrospect, also one ... major living and social option for close to a thousand men. Like most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008