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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  here’s another guest post from my friend, jacky. he cooks. he’s really ... [annotation note="Hence the connection with my friend CJ. I am his hallmate ... % of my meals (the other 10% comes from eating out with friends), and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... . The way my friends do. I've known this all along, since the moment I ... didn't really tell any of my friends about my switch. I just remember

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  'm glad I moved in with my friends, and let them convince me I would love to ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  new Dutch friend is a fabulous singer, and my Italian friend is a ... went along, and brought my little sister. She was excited to be there ... Nobel thing) asked for a volunteer who had a watch. I had a watch. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  tattoos now are my connection to my best friend Connie who lost her life ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my ... where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure ... leave your hall. Of course it’s also super important to make friends with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... my groups on campus, and they asked their friends and dorms. Pretty ... of my family, my fraternity, and the rest of the MIT community. And I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  was talking to one of my best friends, Javier W. ‘17 of Trinity College ... to someone--my mother, a friend--or just sit in the library around ... look at my shoes. I was thinking that I was glad that I wasn’t alone, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close Random Hall friend Devin. It doesn’t have frills, like a dishwasher or a ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  realise that I couldn't rely on anything that I had at MIT, my friends ... my friends, but I would see them when I get back. Everything happening ... be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  I can’t even count the friends I have there with my fingers and toes ... people I watched. Not so much what my friends told me, but what they did ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , nearly all of my friends had a duality of passions: Chemical Engineering ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  perused my essays, as did several of my friends and teachers. After much ... this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  barraged everyone on my Facebook friend list with a deluge of daily updates ... answer. My friend group and I always sent each other asks, keeping our ... to around 5 friends, to post my heart out. it just hit me n all i want

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Martin, who was my friend, was killed, on April 15, 2013, in the bombing of ... close, both emotionally and geographically, to my family, friends, and ... . As my friend Kasia put it, I suddenly started identifying myself less

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents ... center, and it’s a highlight of my week. It’s a time that I carve out of the chaos of MIT to do no work and hang out with believers and friends

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  're also very different people. And yet, we have become good friends. It ... the bossa nova, getting dim sum with other 5W friends, learning perc ... . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  law and policy”. When a friend first told me about this, my initial response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long ... they stayed with close friends. A lot of these articles, including her

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020