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  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them ... 'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before ... ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... computer, I enjoyed fixing it and continued to mess around with it. I went to a vocational high school to study information technology. There I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  answers to your recent questions ... to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... for math/science?" You're welcome to submit supplemental recs

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note ... sense, I do have a task-management strategy, but to me it feels more like ... my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  this woman holding up three large medals and thought to myself "I want ... 's journey from no running to Boston Marathon convinced me that I could train ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... dates. We'll take the top bidders out to see movies or to Toscanini ... to my 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) professor Kimberly Berkowski, 9

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/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 family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have

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

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

  

  I'm currently dealing with writer's block, to be honest, and I ... month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... 4.113 - Applied Architecture Design Studio I, we have to code

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush-infested Valentine's day crusade to deliver something like 2,000 love-infested "band

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... . Whenever I go to do work, the lights are low, and everything is all dark and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• 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…

  

  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. The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... like 3% of our current energy comes from renewable sources, to be honest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... long bike rides to clear your mind and “ah-ha” moments while chatting ... -oriented fitness challenge that is open to the entire MIT community. Teams are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  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 ... actually thought I was a good enough photographer to take that? It was taken

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post ... -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also, according to my Writing Advisor, “thus” is a very math major word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016