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  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because crosswalk conversations (“…host a wine party…” “No way!”) waft up to where I am sitting, alone on…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I’m in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I’ve got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. ’18, who also wrote…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  airplane builder, even back when they were called R/C planes and not drones

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released, securing the MIT team’s first-place ranking–our team has finished in first place for three consecutive years. This year, the winning…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  think about the DCI as doing for blockchain what the W3C did for the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  . ‘16 made an episode for and which Elizabeth C. ‘13 runs! They make all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  ... (Photo credits to my fellow blogger and mini-me Michael C '16) As I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  retribution. Watch your back, C2. And - finally - we received our first real

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  ^Earthrise, 1968. This semester, I’ve read over 160 poems, spent 30 hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few dozen verses. I’ve pored over meter…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  junior fall (now). In the summer, for Elizabeth C. 13's Science Out Loud

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good-bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote: “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  really," "C'mon!" "Ok." I got myself back out of bed. 6am. Sunrise was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one’s fair share of fun When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to browse photos of mountain sports.  These…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  know a lot more about stepper motors, C, and MATLAB than I did two weeks

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

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  and Michael C. '16's post about yesterday's events.  Also, see Chris

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  Before Charm School: [shouts across the room]  “Yo, you’ve got some stuff in your teeth.  That’s grody, dude!” After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Confession time: I’m one of those West Coasters. The ones who get really excited about snow. The ones who keep yapping on about how pretty the snow is while everyone…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  “I’ve been tooling all night.”  “I’m so hosed.”  “IHTFP.”  “I just pulled an all-nighter finishing three psets.” They say you can tell a lot about a culture from its language.…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  when I got to MIT, I would proceed to get C’s on pretty much all of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012