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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  hall. Upstairs, Burton 5 is actualizing models from The World Record ... say that the pool was highlighter-color (pink, yellow, and green), and ... climb the curved transient rock wall, and someone else is lighting cups on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the hulled version, 5.5 cups water to one cup for the other, cooking til water

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design ... ="don't add multiple tablespoons of salt! don't add four cups of water per cup ... on high heat. I use 1 bouillon cube per cup of water, but you can use

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends ... -letter Scrabble words”. There were also pool noodles, which were used to (gently ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] this is brian c. ’19, holding pool noodles. this wasn’t from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... photograph of a swing and how that image says more about the world than any ... classes out of our applicant pool, without question. If you’ve been deferred

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  turned back to the boba. At the bottom of each cup, tapioca pearls clotted ... friend, grabbed two cups sloshing to the brim with milk tea, and left ... inevitably, the intoxicating allure of the corporate world and all of its

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one ... her, I'm inspired enough by the stories I read to think that the world ... applicant pool; of course it's not fair that there are so few spots for so

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  say. What makes someone stand out in your pool?, others ask. But these ... else in the world. In other words, you didn't waste a single solitary ... the best of both worlds.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  contribute more to the world) pursuing projects or companies or whatever ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We ... meritocracy in this world as they get. I lived in this meritocracy for four

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  classroom or the television or the world I lived in, I didn’t feel American. I ... actually, there weren’t people like us in the whole world (as far as we knew ... subway. No matter where in the world we went, on the subway, people would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  a coffee at the Thinking Cup, an adorable coffee shop for the tired ... ? That would be the world-famous Kilted Colin, entertaining by Faneuil Hall ... cup of the most delicious and well-decorated coffee, and indulge in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ’s applicant pool looks like. In other words, there are a lot of factors that ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  of the applicant pool, this time considering your mid year report. And ... end of the world. Even if you don't get into MIT, there is some place

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... than the application pool provides. At another institution the priority

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP) in the 2020–2021 school year ... selected for CUP, we applied for the positions and were interviewed by

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  knowing how to swim. —anonymous learning to swim from a swimming pool. "You can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... Shulman. —Robo-CJ getting thrown into the deep end of a pool after learning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... Harley batting away at a roach, I cupped its remains and took it away as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  red Solo cup (again, I'll let you fill in the dots about what that ... the extremely competitive world of academic biology. That's more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005