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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  freshman year, it was literally the only dish I cooked. I made it 7 times ... brighten your day. So, what is this dish? Pakaprow is a spicy Thai basil ... -difficult styles, all of which I had never attempted before... 1. sharing with my

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  , the first four posts on my facebook feed, four instagram my days, three ... hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or ... iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling

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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine ... the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... expanded to women and non-binary individuals. [carousel image1

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  time on it? But there isn't a day that goes by or a pset that I tool in ... was apprehensively climbing the steps of Lobby 7 with Ostin and a small group of friends, wondering whether this idea was genius or insanity

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a ... , structures, and everything else that makes an airplane fly or a rocket orbit ... loved rockets or loved airplanes or loved "furthering the fight against

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm have different sub-cultures (e.g. in East Campus or Simmons), or if the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  about how fun or less fun each one was. On accuracy, a common thought ... to “better manage” people in workplaces or worse, while hiring people ... evaluations of character or qualification, but a little silliness and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  me happy will always make me happy, regardless of the day- or week ... started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  few days. I have spent many stressful, agonizing hours discovering that ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I ... went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of ... ’s beloved linguistics professor "prof. albright", or “adam”, as i knew him ... asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  -health office at least 7 or 8 times this semester, as I was toying with the idea ... insanely hard. I was mostly deciding between the Rice-Baylor 7-year med ... spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, or Pasteur's theory that germs cause ... fabulous dancer. I can't sing, or dance. So, my contribution was to wave my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

    N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... . 7. Go to the CPW Prefrosh Welcome! K: Because it might be the only ... or third event. K: Definitely find events that you want to go to, but

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  security, about whether we were going to see Marine 1 or a motorcade, etc ... MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... kind of work with energy or that deans felt would benefit the most from

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  into a blog. Thoughts like: I staff 6.031 office hours from 7 to 8 pm on ... student around 7.50 pm, I noticed that the LA who covers 8 to 9 pm was ... first day, the two of them were already sitting together, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of ... , we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  change day by day, to wiring or plumbing that only get replaced every few ... of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  shedding material in their final days or collapsing into a black hole and ... otherwise know about or visit. By teaching astronomy for 7-12 year olds, I met ... that sounded like the first syllable or two of “congratulations,” so he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  . Or so I thought. Here's the progression of my todo list leading ... or Informatik students to ask what the courses are like and hope that ... person and realise there is a $40 or something fee, but what else are you

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018