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• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  APPLICATION; WHO CARES ABOUT SQUASH SOUP RECIPES?! Well, uh, I can't help you ... 't harmful, we can live among you in peace" when just two days before he almost ... DID YOU KNOW? Wolverine is from CANADA. Okay, first of all, who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  walk as fast as I can, my feet barely grazing every second stair. The ... how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... favorites, because I can hear them trotting behind me. Soon enough, they will

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action, you probably aren't. For well over a year, from my rural roost, I sort

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  tools out yourself to see what they can and cannot do. After doing so you ... away: * They can be used to help struggling writers who don’t know where ... with you some thoughts from MIT writing faculty on AI-assisted writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spring Break! Spring Break Broke.

  

  So I'm sitting in the airport in Toronto on my way to London where I will be next week for Spring Break as well as Paris. I'll be sure to post photos and entries all this week. If you happen to be in London or

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  , what are you-click-doing?!But I can say these shoes were once black… and ... .” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  actually using up all the change in your wallet before you can accumulate any ... other people from my gmail. Fun fact: you can only have 5 gchat windows ... moments forever preserved from the exact second they happened. So if you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  check out this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you can have a guest entry ... -respect for watching reality shows. My hypothesis is that you can create a ... sometimes) So, who should we get to go to this audition? Ben is married with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I ... . Given all that has happened, how can you not talk about the hurricane

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... House where I live—[/annotation] and I was home. Not everything was the ... my freshman year. The next morning, I walked to MIT Medical to get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  aren't going to give you funny looks if you say, "Sorry guys, I can't go ... is usually not all that stressful - but then you look at all the things you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  kelly's: You might be upset by the fact that there are 4x4's running through the middle of our room and you might even be wondering, "What?! Are ... pictures for the sake of clarity. Because you see, we have a second

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  notebook? If so, I'd be happy to come get it from you Thanks, Mitra I got ... 's find a time and place to meet up and get/give back your stuff. As you ... the unlucky terminal that said, "If you found a brown notebook or the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... materials to make our engine out of, and a really nice drawing set. As you can ... important that you can communicate your ideas through drawing. So, in our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  forward to that entry? Yeah, I know you are. Can't say I'm looking forward ... , probably more than you realize (ooooo, cryptic). Burton-Conner has all of its ... classes are being toned down so that we can enjoy CPW. This is all very good

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... concentrate unless I shared with you guys the most exciting e-mail I've received ... advance. (Be sure to stop by and see if there are any open spots if you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our coursework can leave students feeling hosed. So it's only fair that students
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  expect? You can read some guest entries (including mine!) from the current ... HOLY COW GUYS! CPW IS ALMOST HERE (42 minutes as of right now) You know what that means right? RIGHT? That's right, it means you guys will

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to their lectures. Or much worse, you'll get people who have pioneered a ... , in my book) that could get away with using Comic Sans (the other being

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  doing all he could to get her to eat the thing burning in his hands, which ... blowtorches, you'd think he wasn't a biology major"]flambé,[/annotation] and ... flaming twist? Anything, from hearts to omelets to even soups, can contain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022