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  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  so we couldn’t use them Kristen is an actual course 2 and made the ... Campus but the steel was so heavy, we weren’t sure if it would support all the concrete blocks we were going to stack on top of it. We couldn’t

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  and even failing tests, and you feel like you're stupid and you don't ...  suddenly find that you don't have a group of friends, and most friend groups have ... this won't happen. But most of us here have seen it happen, and that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  coolness of the UROP that i had done that year, which i hadn't thought about ... , it is right. other times but most moments aren’t like that — most ... , panicked. most days are just days. most days, the stars don’t align; they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... Phoebe (@phxbe) on Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56pm PDT (I haven't updated ... discipline when it comes to sleep. But the story is always, "I didn't go to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we ... analytical vigor also only lasted so long. I felt helpless. I didn’t understand

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... go!” and “a decision doesn’t define your worth as a person,” and “hun ... anxieties aren't miraculously cured. How many times have you been reminded of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  , and I couldn’t afford the same procrastinatory luxuries I previously ... .01 (Physics) lecture isn’t really a lecture, since the class is taught in a TEAL ... single question. I didn’t turn that pset in. OK, maybe this wasn’t the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  funny.’ Thanks for that, Jennifer. At least I didn’t have to switch ... promise you, I'm actually a black female immigrant scientist. Please don't ... sense of who you are. I haven't been around here to write about it as it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  . With the poor animals on the brink of death, present day me doesn’t find ... gaze upon foreign shelves of cutlery and – well actually I don’t usually ... strangest details remain. We don’t get to choose what moments we forget, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  year (IT'S MY SENIOR YEAR) and I realize that I still don't have a ... classes, but they don't fall into any obvious category. I'd been planning to ... : Concentration Advisor: "Why don't you minor?" Me: "...wat?" Concentration Advisor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  isn't even taking into account lunch, which the basic meal plan doesn't ... having my own pan - people don't tend to be very gentle with nonstick pans ... rare.  Please don't cook your steak until it's well done.  You might as

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... love knowing that I’ve said something I couldn’t say before and feeling ... your SAT scores. I won’t touch on it again. You shouldn’t need to touch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  harder to notice them when you're not. This shouldn't surprise anyone, as ... when you haven't seen your friend in a while. Being away from the 'tvte ... 's 800 miles from Pearland. In short, you don't climb in TX. Well that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  to get from one side of the road to the other. Because there aren't any ... ; I don't know where the car came from. From his angle, I think the guy ... , but at 20 MPH even the best brakes can't stop you when the thing you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you ... here aren't unclean, or at least that holds for the subset I've met), and ... 're a geek, you won't be able to escape hearing about MIT; even for MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  can't possibly expect me to live in McCormick!). You submit all of your ... assigned a dorm, a room, and a roommate (they don't tell you your roommate ... dorm. Readjusting doesn't always mean you get what you want, but it's a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  founded by William Barton Rogers but it didn't actually open its doors until 1865. It wasn't in Cambridge at first, it started right across the river ... 57 minutes learning stuff that you didn't even know existed and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  apps? OK, well I can’t see you if you’re raising your hand, but I bet ... , the differences really don’t matter too much. Do you really think that ... 's saying that MIT students aren't smart. What we're saying is that there are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  station, since I didn't have time to alert her to my travels, but I had no ... downtown Montreux. I had no idea where the statue actually was, and it wasn't ... around and walk two hours in the other direction, and then, if I hadn't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  times. Personally, I can't recall having heard of anyone being hassled ... ." Viksit, I can't tell you what your chances are of admission to MIT, because ... space to tell Admissions something they wouldn't know otherwise. And now

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006