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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  on (or as it turned out, through) a skylight. He sympathized, but noted ... a time. Less than a week later, Boston put a ban on social events in ... crack down on students whose only recourse is to whine that their parties

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  . Evaluate on these three measures: i) how much fun you had ii) how much ... done research since last January. I made no progress on handstands, and ... , Merritt Tierce Killing Rage, bell hooks Meditations on the Future of Food

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and ... . Nor have weekly deadlines. Instead, every day, I have new readings on ... major on my floor, and the only sophomore in my department. I don’t take

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... Sean on campus. Last April, under cover of night, students installed ... ; Professor Yoon: Situated on MIT’s campus where Officer Sean Collier was shot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  working on a bunch of cool video projects while more relaxing things like catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention ... -Entry went on a road trip northward to Montreal. Beforehand, I thought it would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  On Saturday we released decisions for Early Action (EA) applicants ... form and then focus on anything other than MIT (other college apps, your ... that the best thing you can do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  reading on. Set is rather popular on my floor, Conner 3. My suite has a card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye ... ’s that simple." *tentative pause* *quick glance* Me: "It’s on. Let’s race

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... the numerous occasions that someone has recognized the brass rat on my ... prototyping. This is what I worked on over the summer (as much of it as I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  On this day celebrating eagles, barbeque, and the adoption of the ... of town couldn’t reschedule their road trips on such short notice. We ... the performance live rather than watching on TV is that the commercial

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman ... out “Kresge Auditorium. Where is it?” I looked around. Were we on some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  plastered on me this past Friday: The AeroAstro one is from the Academic ... requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January ... in Italy and Germany? Physics! In Italy I taught a unit on waves and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  ? I know that it gets confusing with the over 200 events listed on the ... event you want to attend or star each event for every day on your phone so ... also have MIT Medical right here on campus, which has a walk-in urgent

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• 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