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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ... of evaluating ourselves based on what others are doing. I've never felt ... broke down a couple times and ended up talking with my parents on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  tetris game, or putting a police car or a telephone box on the dome. To ... plan to construct something on the dome. They have to deal with the ... dating me; I'll let you speculate on the relative time consumption and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston from lying down on my bed in the dark with window shades up. The night

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, that it's overwhelming to narrow it down to one or ... I don't get a flaky biscuit, Moving on: I'm BACK! I love being back ... mentality, I got on a plane to be back in my beautiful Chi Town!! I took the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always ... cut looked like, I bought a pick and went on with life as usual

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  " on the NSF Fellowship application. Knowing that I don't change my ... : Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind, and you ... don't have any easy answers. Reading some of the material on

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  pretty awesome themselves, but the computers on which we did labs had this awesome desktop image. 9. I was working on this:   It’s a wind ... Momentum Program. Momentum focuses on teaching engineering design every year

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... satellites on the International Space Station! How cool is that?! Just a ... that I was proud to have worked on, nothing more. (But aero/astro is cool

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

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  available on MyMIT in January. On the Midyear Report, you will provide us with ... on your MyMIT account in January and should be completed as soon as ... update us on anything important that has occurred since you submitted your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in ... quaint family dinners on Thanksgiving, complete with all manner of ... floor, partly because I live on the fourth story and that's a long way

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that ... final presentation I will be in part presenting on Monday, so that'll be a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... mindset was "I have to get As on everything, I need to be involved in ... honest, this is Sparta MIT. It's physically exhausting to get A's on every

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  Silence. Stillness. As I lay on my side, feet curled into my chest ... disappeared underneath the skin on my left arm. In a few moments I was relieved ... .” He went on to explain that I was one of less than a dozen children ever

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  amazing things happening on campus. Nevertheless, my love for the blogs and the people who read the blogs brings me here to my computer on a ... feel that at almost any time at MIT on campus, there is free food lurking

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  'm also taking... 5.13: Organic Chemistry II Our first unit is on “amines ... that your human existence depends on. Do you recognize this guy? This ... is a seminar-style course on ethics in literature. It’s co-taught by my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  Class started today and before we know it, a lot of us on campus will ... quoting fellow blogger Elizabeth. Every time I see a baby on campus, it ... really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  . Techiya, on the other hand, sings a variety of music, from slow liturgies to ... on the last day of class. This class is also very fun, and I would ... ’re a freshman on pass/no record, I say go for it. It’s good to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level ... ? And so you hold on dearly to that heartwarming fact... ...until you ... expert, you might be calling shenanigans due to the lack of paint on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  on a big show to the surrounding community, MIT alumni, and just anyone

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011