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  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided to have an after-work event at which parents would construct gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  Wednesday + Intern Open House at Googleplex Thursday + Freakonomics book-signing at Yahoo! Friday + Non-surprise party at Half Moon Bay ... fries. I feel really bad for the stands that were *selling* garlic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  up for the bouncy ball drop at Senior House, or the human hamster wheel ... … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a ... MIT umbrellas at two different Coops. I also bought decals for my car

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... early last fall and found the one that really jumped out at us- "Heat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on ... . MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint ... resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... the career fair began for me (and everyone else I know who isn't course ... major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring people's dreams to life. They made it possible for people like you and me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at ... the Center for Civic Media, which is hands down my favorite lab at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  for a final this weekend, and thankfully the sun came out again after a ... solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http ... installed) to download a licensed copy of Eudora. Also available at that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  is a priority for me. Taking a class up at Harvard would introduce too ... -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... thinking, and if there's one thing we're good at here, it's creative thinking ... kept detailed track of my sleep patterns for almost three years now. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  Science - neither of which are accepted for credit at MIT. And I'm fairly ... Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the policies are subject to change for each entering class. Please refer to this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  right for you, I hope that you discover whether or not you could thrive at ... the best college events in the nation—Campus Preview Weekend at MIT ... Schmill, Kim Vandiver (Dean for Undergrad Research), and me ???: <

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , desperate for something, I applied for a sales job at a local outdoor store ... thousand dollar menu items. That’s a cheeseburger at McDonalds for every ... , expecting, or at least hoping for morphine, Demerol, Percocet. John would take

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  longing for lessons past” way. I discovered 5 classes like that junior year (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... loved was SOC-STD 98LH Education and American society at Harvard (note the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  audiobooks. it sucks realized how thankful i am for my living environment at ... , i didn’t blog! at all!!   now, as i reflect on the past month, i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  ." At this point, I had already decided the most exciting application for ... sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  song for the entry title. As the most Humanities-oriented student at MIT ... And now for something completely different. Sam is allowing me (Ruth '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005