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  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  Having slept for a solid 8 hours last night, I'm finally awake enough (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First: !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days! I honestly cannot believe it's been nearly two years

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  I realize that it's been more than three weeks since I've blogged, but I have two legitimate reasons for why this is so: (1) The freshman ... else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever ... really wishes I were still a freshman and not a sophomore. It feels strange

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  from Ann '14! When I first found out about “Campus Preview Weekend ... that had been available for my browsing pleasure since December, I didn’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my ... feeling right now. Last year this season, I pried every source on the ... the “2nd-Semester Senior” (SSS) wave early. My friends and I started

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... weeks I will have spent a few trillion hours taking three midterms (two of ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... . Technically, none of us can fail a single class this semester. I distinctly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half weeks here at MIT. So I'll dive right into two arguments I've stumbled upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  What I've noticed is that being an Admissions Blogger has turned me into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she gave me a quizzical look when I came home for Christmas break freshman year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  I was already pumped about MIT going into CPW, so I mainly went to absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh from Kansas. I’m one of those people who function best when I

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... trip to Zambia had seen this show and quoted it nonstop. I had never seen ... exception is the line that goes something like, "Oooeee, chicken!" which I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I ... indicator of whether or not you were a resident of Senior House - from what I ... MIT administratrivia still uses "House" rather than "Haus." But I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  So way back awhile ago, after I stopped blogging for extended periods of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference, you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the ... at M.I.T., the U.S.'s premier engineering school, the traditional

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  some commenters, I will have some integration bee sample problems up tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story to tell you. If there's anything I learned from MITblogging, it's that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  East Campus courtyard and I am left to decide what happened to my weekend ... from the beds of fallen foliage. Funny, I don't remember this scene ... because I'm not tired. And then Monday rolls around and I sleep half the day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005