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  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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I’ve been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and there’s one item I’ve been staring at guiltily for far too long: blogging. As it turns out, this…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for use by MISTI – MIT Science and Technology Initiative, an amazing program that sets you up with internships…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages. Two excuses, actually. Yes, I took my last final over a week ago, and yes, I…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011