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  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  questions about MIT, about life here, about how to survive day-to-day, about how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning ... RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this ... cvs. you have to be 18 to do so. guess how young i look then ... History Department that are very popular with freshmen. One is How to Stage

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  From EC to Trinity Hall Last year First East was graced with a ... enthusiastic 6-1 major with a propensity to semi-conductor electronics, Rob was always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his ... , basically, like The Game. You don't want to think about it...but you do. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  CPW, so I have absolutely no clue how this event’s supposed to go, even ... room, heart beating out of my chest as I tried to figure out how to reach ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might ... advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I usually never drink soda, but I didn’t want to steal from my hall fridge. So

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  me last spring,” and it's amusing to count how many times he mentions ... making negative progress in learning how to swim, the hardest class I ... I'm currently dealing with writer's block, to be honest, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  PS forum. When people ask me how I learned mathematics, I want to say I used ... Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  timer that indicates how much time it will take to cook. When that timer ... [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other kitchen appliances. It originally belonged to my aunt, but she sent it to my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  . 2.ThA - Undergraduate Thesis How to write your thesis 101 2.A35 ... I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that not everything needs to be sent from home. Some folks think they need to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  . It is apparently supposed to continue snowing later today, so I'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... nice time to talk about MIT's campus organization. My goal is to teach ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... two towns are great if you want to relax, and Somerville especially can ... arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self ... segments, and 6 more raising them to different inclines). How would you feel ... Python for Rhino: Not sure how I'm going to make it more

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  ...but dreams burn bright. To me, this is a decent description of how I see MIT ... tennis bubble, Kresge, the Student Center, and more. Not to mention, a ... freshman, immediately came to mind. I think it's a gorgeous shot. And people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them." This quote came from an F-15 pilot who stopped by to speak to the AFROTC ... how to lead. This abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008