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  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  need help. All you need to do is ask.  Don't be afraid to seek help from ... lot of stress and time if you just talk to someone! Do what you love ... to do and commit the free time you do have to it. If you really love

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  essays. This means to spend a lot of time thinking about why you do the things you do and how you’ve developed yourself in your mental, emotional ... interview. Sometimes I do silly things. Sometimes they become self

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 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 ChemLab Boot

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... doing your UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) this fall

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  closer inspection I discovered this! What was that strange sticker doing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  Chris Peterson once said, "rfong is a good photographer, and in order to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that Machiavellian attitude which capacitates this blog and this miniature visual ode

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... do essentially anything else besides uphold justice and hand out ... at the door, because we looked frickin' good, if I do say so myself

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  conversation: (Minus the fact that I DO NOT HAVE STEVE AUSTIN'S ARMS ... lights. I must say, if you ever try bouldering, doing it with blacklights ... - Mom, I tried something new! Something that I didn't want to do at first

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  up doing with my life. 18.03: Differential Equations I no ... parents both do research in biochemistry and molecular biology; it’s exciting to understand more about what they do every day. I’m happy that the

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

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  : what am I doing this semester? MIT has many urban horror stories about ... useful to know off the top of your head when doing audio production; for ... do the math before recording in big rooms since the ability to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their field. And we have the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program doing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... how do you tell the difference? You can't really. It's a lot of feel and ... wonder how on earth someone is supposed to do something productive with so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 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…

  

  eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back ... honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a ... at MIT by doing fun things like Mystery Hunt, glass blowing, break

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

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  it a second thought, because it's just not something I imagined doing ... , why CAN'T I be on the other side of the world during IAP? Why MUST I do ... -week class on the power of modern media. We're also doing night-time lectures

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling ... have not yet finished, and of how no matter how much work you do there ... you really should have been doing work instead of baking 3 kinds of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ... . I babysit rats now. I even do so out of the kindness of my own heart ... networks. Hopefully during IAP, I'll have time to learn how to do perfusions

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  using that term on television. And yet, we here at MIT do it all the time ... book review is suggesting that maybe us 40- somethings might be doing our ... wants popsicles?” They didn’t know what to do with that word, it had

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  whatva I do what I want" and flew home to surprise him. I have tons o

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... leaning towards MIT, I don't want to take their spot" * I do not think this ... thing of me to do, but I guess it reflects the state of my mind at that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011