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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they ... semester... Plus I was spending all my time on the only class I actually ... with a grad student tp talk about the problems you worked on for the past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  homes across the world working on just about anything. MIT alums can work ... contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... —the pressure is always on to glean as much wisdom and learn as many lessons as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  Secret Santa gift exchange. Each resident spends ~$20-$30 on some number of ... this button I pinned the button on my backpack. Last week, I flew back ... on my coat to leave and squashed the toy, which blurted out (very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  on this. For now, let's do a time warp and go back a couple hours. It ... missionaries (they're awesome). He spotted some of the other missionaries on ... (guess I'm a California boy at heart). Back on topic. That night, at 8

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that I mentioned Joe Biden. It was pretty early on during my freshman ... you pset? Are you keeping on top of deadlines? To me, Archit was always ... something of that nature. High on my list of favorite questions I've ever

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you ... , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  being too soft on Iran.  Yadda yadda yadda. And if you've been watching ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... expert on hand.  Just the other day, I sat down for lunch with Dr. Jim

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  programs/internships and so on. Through all this, I've learned that writing ... differently than cover letters, and so on. It's been an up and down roller ... article useful to all of you as you embark on college apps/scholarship apps

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  has been so surreal watching the '16s arrive on campus and thinking ... I'll be an admissions blogger, and so on. I promise - like, for real ... curriculum for this (and the other classes) on OCW if you're interested in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  worried about getting put in a quad, there are only 10 on campus, all ... Fritos in our trash can that someone grabbed at LaVerde's on the way back from class. We know that when we try not to turn on the lights and end up

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  staring wide-eyed with smiles plastered on their face being carted from free ... he actually swung back and forth continously! Meanwhile on the other ... hacks during CPW, if not my time here, was the one pulled on building 54

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  this. Or this. Sometimes MIT feels like one intense workout on a ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the ... changes to walk, or taking in the occasionally beautiful weather on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  overarching politics, although the former is on a grander scale. Turns out one ... of the arts scholars on the trip had, and gave us a synopsis during the ... in return gifts him with her magic horse. Siegfriend then goes off on a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... open problems as extra credit on problem sets, so it's nice that ours are ... -IOI freshman on my hall. Small world! 21M.380: Recording Techniques and Audio

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  could try on panniers, which are undergarments worn in the 18th century ... a poster pasted on the Department of pathology’s notice board about her talk on aneuploidy, I just had to go. Firstly, I just learnt about

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Rural Development, an Indian NGO. Rickshaw Bank loans rickshaws on a micro ... and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... strongest grip on the sensor. After the Americans, Luke and Jeff, had soundly

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  spent most of finals week living on Pop-Tarts; if I couldn’t even feed ... that a lot of our friends recommended. It was freezing. We got on the ... , and got on again on the other side. The tattoo parlor looked

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

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... only on schoolwork, but on scholarship applications as well. There was ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  , especially since the professor wrote “Yes, it’s ICE” on the top of the board on ... bunker” or “the dungeon,” as she worked on ICE. Each weekly pset built upon ... days, so this will probably be my chance to catch up on sleep and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this ... with web development and better coding practices. On Friday night, I set ... think I might have accidentally become a tea/coffee connoisseur. I was on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011