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• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... reflecting on my past semester... On the one hand, perhaps that's because I'm too afraid to jinx myself by making some general statement about MIT. On

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

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  : shave on October 31st do not shave again until December 1st see what ... , Movember, an Australian variant of the practice that focuses exclusively on ... Novembeard, I must denounce their heresy. Like putting beets on burgers, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  mild fall, many leaves are still on their trees, increasing the surface area vulnerable to the storm. Heavy snow, catching on leafy trees ... , because they haven't been able to work on them with the power out. While I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  in a while, and revel in the fact that yes, you only have one class on ... bump into you on your way to your favorite hipster coffee shop. For the ... the beginning of the semester, is beginning to bear down on me with all

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma ... curiously charming roundabout way, is freshmen advisors. When you arrive on ... prepared you to dive headlong into the rigors of MIT, but on the other end of

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

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always ... application because it was posted around the same time as an entry Yan shared on Facebook that I clicked on while bored. But this is what I get out of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... preferred meats on this island is spam -- restaurants have as many entrees ... jasmine rice with two over-hard eggs on top and a side of macaroni salad

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

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  on FTX’s (Field Training Exercises). These are 3 day long ... .) packed on our back. Suddenly, there’s a mission. There’s an ... the grid point on the map and plan the best way to attack. You brief

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or ... -working girl is happy with her life but has been so focused on her career (or you ... make their own or just come and vote on their favorites. To me it was the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  YOU think was going on?) and I was completely enamored with the thrill of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... trip, because the majority of our time was spent crawling on my face

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

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  documents haven't shown up on the application tracker. Here's why: we ... things that arrive today to not appear on the tracker for another week or ... 't stress! Midyear Report. Though it is not yet available on MyMIT, you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... Frisbee game. I was in a wheelchair for a day. Then on crutches. I learned ... a mountain, on a motorcycle - crutches strapped to the back. In the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  on campus at the ungodly early hour of 6:30am, then headed off to the ... accommodate everyone, and so the main event (the holiday prayer) was held on a ... away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  excerpted on the entry announcing new bloggers: The smell of decomposing ... , cranking up every dial. I put on my headphones, ready to unleash percussive ... associations. On that note, two last observations for the weekend: 1) Benefits

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  meals on her own for herself and her two brothers. I wouldn't have ... goodbye hugs on the last day, participate in games, and initiate ... ." It was brilliant. The most powerful portion of CK took place on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you ... brownies featured on Oprah were a disaster in my hands. But, if there is one ... from my mistakes, and moved on. I changed how I studied, focused on

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on ... out" but that's a tough philosophy to motivate yourself on. As astute readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  move on from here. -- To me, summer has always been the time for some ... summer reading list and catching up on a whole list of movies ... “catching up with culture and society,” I also have on the list reacquainting

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga”) photographed on the top floor of the MIT museum using a Polaroid ... yesterday morning on a couch, faced* with the hard, hard realization that ... : Which escalated into: The people on the other side of the street on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... perspective on MIT - especially its pretty amazing housing system. (If you ... ??) Things have changed a lot in the last four years. I no longer live on that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010