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  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... early last fall and found the one that really jumped out at us- "Heat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on ... . MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint ... resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

   elevator pitch. (At some point, I'll probably make an entire post about what a ... score a great summer internship - just not at the career fair, which just goes to show that even if the companies at the career fair aren't looking

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  offices at MIT are. Among them is @MITStudents, an account maintained by ... usually at the gym at the same time, and the other day we were talking about ... about the Division of Student Life (DSL) at MIT? Essentially DSL promotes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their ... heard next. "We're now receiving reports of an explosion at the Pentagon ... . An image of walking through the Pentagon smiling up at my dad as we

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and ... 's what you need to do: (Deep breath again) At 6:28, or anytime thereafter, you can check your decision at: decisions.mit.edu Log in

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month-long externship at a healthcare consulting firm about an hour outside Boston. The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online at Umeqo. I went with my friend and old roommate Anji after tucking in our salmonella... and we were immediately greeted at the door by Bar

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring ... to experience things that we thought we only saw in movies. At 5 Wits

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  shower at least twice a month. ...but like most stereotypes, it also ... initial request for a spot at the dinner got turned down.  At the last ... meal there was a lady at the front who gave us tips on proper table

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , I'm awake before the sun has risen fully: I'm living at UPenn this ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... something at the Merck cafeteria (the latter happens way too often, sigh - one

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last ... Finding Nemo, and (2) started reading Hunger Games. At some point, I fell ... rest of the book series. I glanced briefly at homework but only to tell

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  longer -- if we don't have it at that point, you'll get an email ... sent to us. But at this point, we're only reading complete ... applications have been read. So don't worry. At this time, do not send a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  /engineering ingenuity at MIT. Basically, RUNE solicits art and literature submissions from ... inclusion in a glossy magazine published annually at the end of the spring ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  efficient. When I showed up at the student center this afternoon there was no ... whole process took less than three minutes.     Being sick at ... will not be getting pig flu, or bird flu, or people flu. (At least, not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me. At ... decided to hold an "Eating War" this past Tuesday at their campus dining

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  parts are back at school today - I dropped my brother off at school this morning, meaning I woke up at 7:15 (the horror!). The house is empty and I ... still loved the class even at the end of the semester, even when I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  , and I'm still not done with work. - I went to get an eye exam at a ... free at 8 pm on Thursday. Yup - 4 hours before most everyone else in our ... right now?" "Uhhh...in your room?" "Nope. At the theaters. About to watch

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  -signed papers saying that I'm allowed to travel alone, I am finally back at MIT ... life. Camp Kesem kicks off tomorrow at 8 am, and I'm so excited about it ... ; we're definitely going to be the most awesome group at camp =P Sorry

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010