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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  -to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result ... of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all ... take a break from the sit-all-day-locked-in-my-room studying technique

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  independent living group, that means: Improv, meditation, DIY sushi, a jam ... , hair dying, Italian dinner, forkapple*, shoeblade**, a tea party, and ... *** and hot chocolate on Saturday ...and a healthy breakfast Sunday morning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this ... wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative ... Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... the brain revs and pushes onward through a Problem Set. The feeling ... lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... planetarium, when we promptly found ourselves blockaded by a veritable barricade of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  reconsider sales we missed. With summer vacation being a short 2-3 weeks away it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of ... a lot of people have been asking what movies are still canon. X-Men 3

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... myself as a prefrosh, wishing all you younger-uns best of luck for what

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  When the CPW schedule came out  when I was a prefrosh 50000 years ago, I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out a full itinerary and ended up with something like this: ... and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon. After the show finished and the performers had taken a few bows, Elder ... silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk. The students, accordingly, are a lot like tiny kittens (or any milk ... 2017, right now, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Before me lies a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  technical terms, a really dope* concert with Macklemore and Ra Ra Riot. *note ... mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman ... Macklemore borrowed a girl's leopard coat jacket thing. "This smells like a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... . Thanksgiving break finished off a stressful week. After waking up from a pie ... soon. Long weekends always kill me. They are a gift, but also a sharp

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  . Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former MIT faculty member or alum has won a Nobel every year since 1993. So this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still does involve a commute ranging anywhere from 20-25 miles - and that ... does add up to a substantial amount of time. The commute starts pretty

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Caine is a 9 year old boy from East LA. His dad, George, runs a used ... Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla.  He started playing Caine's games. Then he made a movie about him. Fair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... this thing existed (I live under a rock, apparently... so much so that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride ... forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that ... now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking ... a bad thing, and she wasn”t saying that we can”t fully use and enjoy ... “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011