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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  criticism on how cringy freshman year Nisha [annotation note="or still am idk ... taken that spot), B'z is not on Spotify and it hurts me everytime i think ... meant to catch up on steins;gate 0 but never did, i watched some amount of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  . Li notwithstanding, I ended up becoming the chef on Saturdays at pika last quarter. A bit of background: pika, a 30-person independent living ... seafaring (riverfaring?) vessels on the Charles, three bread machines, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and ... incredibly helpful men, respectful and supportive male supervisors, and men who ... February, former Uber employee Susan Fowler posted “Reflecting on one very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a ... , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  S. '16 for her help waterjetting!  Amusingly, one of the robots on the ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... 're not entirely comfortable turning on, part choices, and Arduinos, maybe

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... living in the city, you'd have a bike stolen at least once -- if you were

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  help you out. Beyond that, the guys on the team always make sure to leave ... great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help ... . Basically, at CPW we have 10 faculty members give 5 minute talks on whatever ... moment. This year, we had: Heather Paxson from Anthropology on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically ... ) Back on campus, IAP was in full swing. On campus, IAP is a time when ... tried Mystery Hunt for the first time, but epically failed to help the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question ... due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... water (...I hope) when I turn the faucet on high to fill a glass, but the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... moved out of Next House. As someone who lived there for all four years of ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of ... lives–people who only had their common last name tying them together. I ... clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... one. I flew in to Logan Airport on the 7th, wearing my propeller hat ... hat has reappeared on special days including the first day of school

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  on the prodding of a few freshers, I found that I didn't have to live ... The same day the United States Government furloughed non-essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  temporary effect on taste. The berry’s miraculin glycoprotein (3 ... . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on ... living groups have had miracle berry parties, including Next House this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  Museum of Fine Arts). On the outside it seems like it’s a normal ... . The rooms are decorated for experiencing and living, not simply for ... displayed on the first floor of The Gardner. It’s almost framed off from

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... 've passed on pset- and exam- heavy classes in favor of those with huge end ... 't spend too much time doing that, though. You could be off living your own

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  's, well, a statistics class, with a focus on neuroscience ... your time well it could be death by that form of Java too. It lives up to its reputation as a time sink. I like that so much of it is hands-on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007