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  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  Last weekend was the Tetazoo fall camping trip, and my first time ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire during the fall semester. What…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog. Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  wow. I’m Joe, and I don’t really know where to start this post. I guess I’m a blogger now. Also apparently I’m a real life MIT student now too. Neither…

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  Do you know what day it is? Well, one year ago, on September 17th, 2013, an excited young blogger published a heartfelt post gleefully talking about what his first year…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit in the large washer. Chocolate and peanuts and granola make me groan, for too often they have…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  Expectation: There is no way I’m getting into MIT, let alone becoming a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the better. Hi, I’m Michelle, and it’s super nice…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. ’16 forwarded me this email: Greetings, On Saturday September 13th and Sunday September 14th, I will lead our “annual”…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There’s some basic bio information I can give when I meet people around the Institvte (“Hi, I’m Danny; I’m a senior majoring…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a community. This means walking down the hallway to greet smiling friends, then doing homework with them and talking…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of life. In other words, the more catered Chipotle, rush burgers, or local pizza consumed, the higher one’s overall…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous and emotional selection process, hired, from among 62 applicants (including Snively), four freshman bloggers and two seniors…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the Institute and our admissions process, particularly…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about my approach to MIT (more on that later), I’ve finally figured out my classes for junior fall. One of the classes…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some reason, I assumed that holding a camera and walking around campus would give me steady enough footage to…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I’m going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double major isn’t for everyone and please don’t feel like you’re an inferior student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

      MIT students are always pumping out crazy new inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being in…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly artificial) – think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over and over at career fairs. But it…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I’m going to try including more fun multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don’t like writing or will stop writing text…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  Note: This post will be updated at irregular intervals today, Saturday, August 30 whenever the words decide to magically appear on my Word processor. Let’s call it a “Time Experiment”…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There’s a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my teacher. Evidently, when my…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014