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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... inspirational as the last. This year, he wrote:                (words by Neil

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure ... mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what ... ". I'm about 95% sure that the specific question was about politics and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please pardon the incoherentness. Right now I'm at an airport, watching my ... want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  -picking note sessions. Maybe one day I’ll share the actual content with you, but ... advice are the lens through which I view opportunity and my future.   1. “The sky is the limit” - Mom Since I was a very little Gabe, my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  Fraternity rush and sororiety recruitment, cornerstones of the ... , the President of Panhel and Evan Wang, the Programming and Recruitment Chair of the Interfraternity Council, asked if I wouldn't mind sharing

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  find them walking aimlessly along the infinite, pleasantly hidden, but definitely not unnoticeable among the masses of people who obviously slept the night before. It's a well-kept secret. But I have proof. Behold the two

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... my classes. You can ask my mother - I was super mopey the day before I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  events have happened in my life. I experienced the best FPOP ever aka DPD ... , survived a hurricane, visited too many club booths at the activities midway, enjoyed a free steak and lobster dinner (yes, the free food around here isn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... into the CPW live chat already know, your hosts will be contacting you ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during ... quick and dirty introduction to the fundamentals of circuit building and ... Materials II The sequel to the critically acclaimed "Mechanics and Materials I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT who perform (juggle? spin? What's the correct verb for this?) diabolo

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  , or limit the things you can do. You owe it to yourself to find the ... it's not the goal. It's the beginning. Enjoy the last few months of high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  still in its embryonic stages, shuttled off my finished webpage into the abysmal depths of the Internet, and didn't capitalize any proper nouns in the banner, for some unknown reason. Anyway, as much as I admire the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially ... what you have to do now? Chill out. Seriously, pat yourselves on the ... your hands, don't let the rest of the world pass you by. I'm sure it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though ... learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... commitment, but ultimately bring me a lot of joy or pride. So the question ... , you have probably realized that there is an “Activities” portion to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  "The author has filed this entry in the 'Life After MIT (Careers ... have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT ... . The next day Adam took my German I exam--I mean, he took it along with ... understood about six words, and then corrected my answer to the last question

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