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  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has passed since…

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It’s that time of the year where everything winds down and you might have little control over how things turn out. It’s rough. More and more towards the end of…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  I’m going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I remember asking my parents to bless my application. I’m pretty sure that I would have sprinkled holy…

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  I love the weather today. I rode my bike home through puddles and gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www.tinyurl.com/annaho Thanks buddy. – Saturday night, I was doing laundry while dressed like a princess, and at 7 this morning I was being…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  Hi Everyone, Early action committee is almost over! I never knew I could read so many pages. I never knew I could drink so much coffee. I never knew I…

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  I receive e-mails pretty regularly from prospective students (mostly High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I’d post a few up here.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am…

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• 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 / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small, neutral red letters. Immediately…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  Recently I considered sprinkling (read: coating) ramen powder on saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer’s Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan dudes kicked lots of people into wells.…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they hadn’t been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture halls) for the weekly…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma ’14, sent out an e-mail to…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  The last post I made was about my summer, and I haven’t even written about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time is going…

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  I often feel inspired when I least expect to. When I do feel inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my…

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October). Also during that time, presumably because I’ve gotten older and wiser, I’ve learned a number of things:…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got on the bus, I…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Class of 2014 track jacket When your MIT friends say you're a dork, you know you have a problem

  

  It finally arrived. All you need to know is that something in here matches something in here.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster coffee shop, sipping an…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012