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  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... MIT? Oh yeah. GIFs. I'm new here and maybe I just haven't properly learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom ... 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT ... yourself." He had quite a point. Calling MIT freshmen "enthusiastic" was

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  After the chaos and confusion that was associated with MIT FPOPs ... MIT! In the upcoming weeks, you'll soon find yourself in the true swing of things at MIT. Classes. Psets. Exams. Eventually, you'll learn the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  the thousands of fliers that are posted over MIT bulletin boards ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... at MIT last fall, I originally told everyone that I wanted to major in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  .  Sure, there are a lot of cool and a lot of awkward moments at MIT, but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chem Lab Boot Camp!

  

  So course 5 (Chemistry) is doing something cool. Last January, filmmakers followed around the participants of 5.301 Chemistry Lab Techniques as they struggled with the intensive, high stakes world of…

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... about MIT. (Thanks Richard. The check from Tim Beaver is in the mail). Stephen, though, had some unkind words about MIT, and moreover didn't seem

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... , participating in competitions like MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course ... , and you no longer feel like the youngest part of the MIT community ... 'm too afraid to jinx myself by making some general statement about MIT. On

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  questions about MIT, about life here, about how to survive day-to-day, about

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged about last week no longer exist. Yay, happy dance: (Devin ’13 showed me this video a while back…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the annual Pride Parade! We weren’t the only techies…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 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

  

  the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The

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

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  If there's one thing MIT students aren't known for having, it's spare time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... up against those of MIT students? Diane said that the visitors ... 'cool' factor that trips up some MIT students." This is a lesson I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  MIT bought the Riverbank Court Hotel from the City of Cambridge). There ... was loved by all who graced its halls. One day in 2006, the MIT ... the architects and MIT administration to finalize the blueprints for our

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  Chris M. scooped me, but I just couldn’t let a visit from the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor pass without geeking out. I love airplanes, but the Osprey is by far the…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  uniform every Tuesday, Cadet (Rachel) Williams. I’m an MIT student

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Gruber received his Bachelor Of Science in Course 14 (Economics) from MIT ... , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... . Gruber received his B.S. in Economics from MIT, and his Ph.D. in Economics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  what happens after your laptop dies at MIT. I feel like this is almost a ... lounge at MIT where a group of people are clustered watching a movie on TV ... somewhere that MIT students can theoretically get by without owning a laptop

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010