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  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  today is the 'unluckiest day', then maybe tomorrow is the luckiest? If not in the decision, then probably in something else, if you keep your mind ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  ...something. The hacking arena. The ingredients: ideas, sleeplessness, Red Bull, and ... the best cookies I've ever had. Rocking the Oculus Rift. Hacking, as defined by Wikipedia: "the act of engaging in activities (such as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  changed since our last exchange (the way I begin blog posts has obviously not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last meal in the ... right now). Instead, let's talk about all the movies I've been watching

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  Before Charm School: [shouts across the room]  "Yo, you've got some ... the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most popular events is the annual Charm School Business Etiquette Dinner. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  the most creative analogies I’ve ever heard. I’m at wind ensemble ... inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first ... also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• 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 ... wanted two things 1) travel farther 2) focus on architecture. The answer was MISTI. MISTI (The MIT International Science and Technology

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... apartment three months after the move, so I wasn’t surprised when my dad pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The New York Times wrote an article about us 5) The Livescribe company blog ... weekend I attended "CollegeFest 2009" at the Hynes Convention Center, just

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the link is to last year's site), which this year falls around Drop Date, the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  liked the bits about relativity (too bad it wasn't really on the final ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog about something a little happier than MIT final exams. And the happiest

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... people to act as insurgents and hostages, I jumped at the opportunity. The ... in style - on a Chinook helicopter. As we boarded the bird at Endicott

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular Woohoo!) or shortly thereafter. After talking over all the awesome reasons

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  from freshman year. This is the dorm room which I shared with Kelly '09, all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and kelly's: You might be upset by the fact that there are 4x4's running

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended ... (yet, unproductive) break. The weather only aided in the inevitable ... accomplishment. a. Cambridge Community Center (CCC): I'm a member of the Boston

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  course! That Saturday was the Manchester FIRST Regional, and I was psyched to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some ... -fi, thriller, satire aficionado but I'm open to any suggestions. Now to the book

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  Thermodynamics, we got four review sheets for the final. I know someone once ... yourself, does this dilute the challenge of the test? Well, no, because they write the test expecting that you have transcribed every equation

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005