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  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  When I was a child I was a nerd. (I know this comes as a big shock to many of you. But it’s true) Being a nerd, I did nerd…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life. As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7.05 (biochemistry) final.…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn’t previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that was the…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own little bubble. There were many times I remained oblivious to what was going on in the…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it’s a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2:30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an earlier blog entry: What could this possibly mean? It means I’ve graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here’s the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawai’i County)*. I…

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home and care. They took…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  BRUINS!!!

  

  ADMISSIONS TIMEOUT   OK AND WE’RE BACK

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  With less than two months left till my MCAT, I’ve started frequenting the local Starbucks, plugging myself into my music and reading orgo/bio/chem till my brain feels like it’s dying.…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the “IvyPlus” schools,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  …for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden broadcast? Today’s xkcd!: Randall Munroe = zeitgeist-capturing genius . He speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point…

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  It’s Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June. Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough consciousness to turn it…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh (and occasionally even current students) saying basically the same thing: “MIT is full of amazing people, I don’t…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Some people[1] say that you need to seriously rethink your life when your days don’t end with grass stains on your knees. I’d like to suggest that grease, dust, and…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what was literally and – perhaps more importantly – figuratively a one-way ticket home. There was a…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  My oldest son graduated from high school this past weekend and we hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big blue and white…

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  This guest post on LGBT life at MIT comes to us from Cory Hernandez (’14), a political science major and a worker at MIT’s Rainbow Lounge. For more information, be…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my roommate (from freshman year, mind…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Last year, I spent the entire summer working at ETS in Princeton, New Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I wanted two things…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011