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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... in South Dakota. It is interesting to see how similar some of our ... conductor comes and talks to the MIT students for a while. We ask him how the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  a pressure sensor to measure how much gas collects over time. It also ... few times since, and now she's showing me how to use a gas chromatograph to analyze how much methane is actually in the gas we've collected

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how ... 't need to be there to guess how it made me feel to see so many holes ... that's how I want to remember the class. So I threw away the targets I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  imagination. How this relates to admissions: Some kid says, "I saw that your ... 's foot isn't going to make her smarter. Don't do this. How this relates to ... tries to do it by using words like, "utility." How many units of utility

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at predicting outcomes of NFL games. But seeing how this post-season has been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... to my second class. I grabbed lunch with some friends, and then trekked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... Chance"]CXC[/annotation]… the list goes on. Trying to decipher these

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup ... school and growing up, I thought I should write a bit about how different ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp ... a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we

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

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  come from?! I want it back!" And just to refresh your memory as to how ... So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• 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