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  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a ... know what i'm doing with myself, and it's a really good feeling) and am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  , is Beantown Taqueria, a cozy Mexican Restaurant with delightfully spicy tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... year at MIT. But wait, don’t enter yet; you still have about a week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... student has been on a steady diet of chicken breast, ramen, and whatever

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... + snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... , which throughout my (privileged) childhood had seemed like a stable and ... only television show for which I consistently made the time. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not ... to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  Finals ended over a month ago, so quite frankly, I have no excuse for my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a ... a little anemic right now (maybe it’s heat exhaustion. Or maybe it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about ... up to:   (1) 2.670 (Mechanical Engineering Tools) A class!  But

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... UROPs/internships have finished, so why not go and learn a thing or two

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... : everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  they belong. Suddenly we were interrupted by the all-male a capella group ... , who ran into the lecture hall like a superhero. “We’re here to deliver a ... , in unison, “Hi Madeline.” One of the boys kneeled. “We actually have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street ... “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the ... generations by forming a sort of intergenerational club. Meanwhile, Rick

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book ... classroom had a preliminary spelling test. The first biochemistry recitation had a suspiciously young, suspiciously energetic recitation instructor

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

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  . I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... lets take a peek into my day:   6.002x (Circuits and Electronics ... dropped it), but the best part is that there's a roughly 1.2:1 ratio of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas! Well, let's back up a little bit… For one reason or other that I cannot fully explicate, this semester has been a blur, passing by faster than I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  Leadership Laboratories (ELLs), and one thing I’ve realized since I became a second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011