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  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... field, than doing something with a large impact that you don't love. You ... the people I've met at MIT. What if I'd gone to another college with an

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  Health, I was greeted with cheers and pom poms and a strange ghostly ... steam with your team and have a few laughs: <iframe width="560" height ... giant pink finger in the air with the chant "Think Pink". When the awards

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  looked down at my rollerblades. “Not with those you can’t.” I pulled off my ... . The car filled with cricket sounds and clean, cool air. After setting up ... amphitheater. We spent the next two days hiking with mushrooms, flowers, changing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  built around profound sharing with supposedly strong ties. It’s a complete ... anything with Google Plus yet as an office. I personally love Circles (but I ... experiences with social media are a generation out of date. So please, tell me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  's start off with a quick biology question:Q: What's the best way to entice ... hate them because you have to put up with them until they become useful ... . There are those friends who are in the same boat with you and spend hours

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  semester and getting in tune with his authentic self. And while these options ... off campus with some friends and go into Boston to try something you ... gain some new perspective, then get down on the floor with a bunch of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  their first meetings with their advisors, it's to listen and engage them ... overwhelmed with it, tell someone. More times than I'd care to count, I found ... . Psets encourage collaboration. There's no graduating with honors or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  with any survey, some people are way more receptive than others at ... with spam as Boston has beef (which if you haven’t been before, there is ... jasmine rice with two over-hard eggs on top and a side of macaroni salad

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  candidates' weekend, an event similar to CPW with the major difference that the ... an NBC camera crew after me) with pictures of Vincent's cat. I still ... Internets   In Internet Currency, this is 9000 reasons! Combined with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  , voted overwhelmingly to strike 'in solidarity with the national university ... classes -- the strike -- at MIT. With the Grateful Dead already in Boston ... Student Center steps, with the crowd all across Kresge Oval: There is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  and defend my project more robustly.) So here I am - with a huge 3D ... some more and wrestle with the program to try to get a drawing or two out ... presenting only screenshots. Presentation time...and I nervously prefaced with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative ... , you learn that any reference frame, with the right calculations and ... - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  form a Southern Confederacy, and strive with all their power to carry the border States with them. The latter, especially Virginia, are anxious to ... be drawn for the present so as to place them with the seceders. Still

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  's licenses and learner's permits are to the roads. As with driving, practice ... . He equated it to playing Jeopardy with Watson - and it's an apt ... to reason with this procrastination vice. As comprehensive as this

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

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  diverse as MIT's own student body, with delegates coming from places as ... myself pleasantly surprised that, even with MIT's technical focus, the ... for Seoul's own Model UN conference. With this year being another

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  YOU think was going on?) and I was completely enamored with the thrill ... underground. Instead, I was met with this as the entrance: As you can see ... ?). The MIT Caving Club will gladly take anyone with an interest in shucking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  touch with the team during the off-season, organize team dinners and other ... “hired him on the spot,” reasoning, “why wouldn’t you hire someone with ... that some of the GEL staff have had their say, I plan to talk with a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  of small towns with misleading names: Paris, Norway, Oxford, Poland ... retreat two years ago, which got us up close and personal with nature. There ... agreement with Ethan, we stopped at the same rest area we stopped at on the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  Tuesday with my first MIT test ever, in 8.022, also known as “Physics II—Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  apartments across from me draw their curtains and turn off their lights (with ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my ... , which is slightly scary, but also kind of odd, since with med school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010