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  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City depending on traffic and wait time…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  : Inventing Abstraction. My friend Priya K. '16 and I over-dissected the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for 7.06, cell biology with Professor Iain Cheeseman. We were learning about how proteins made in the…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book on the floor I…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  Life, a.k.a. jobs. The student exhibitors had a few...novelty methods

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 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 a classroom project, a cool new toy, an internship with MISTI, participating in competitions like MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  6.270 - Autonomous Robot Design Competition 6.370 - Battlecode, a.k

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should get a haircut.…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  : intel i5 2500K (OC'd to 3.8Ghz) CPU COOLER: Hyper212+ MOBO: GA-Z68X-UD3H

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on four different outfits before deciding which combination of shorts and baggy t-shirt to p-set…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night before and slid…

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

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  aboard. Lydia K. made the transition from Pennsylvania to Random Hall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  : UROPs - The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program a.k.a. what

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

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and “hands-on”. Before I got here I would’ve listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or…

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren’t old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom’s best friend from college’s sister’s…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It’s hard to know exactly how I’m feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I’ll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’ve ever had, all packed into four incredible days. If orientation (a.k

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment District – Cambridge’s “alternative department store”, featuring a giant heap of clothes in a pile being sold at…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas-y – maybe it’s that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it’s that we never take down our tree…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010