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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had ... looked down at my rollerblades. “Not with those you can’t.” I pulled off my skates, dropped my bookbag at my feet, and opened my laptop. Luckily my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new ... , the two of us ended up at MIT Medical the next day, where I had a super ... at MIT", and had a nice bonding experience with Juan :) Negatives

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when she collaborated with Sally Susnowitz, Assistant Dean and Director at ... societies at MIT to serve the community at large. "Kristi, Sally and I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  at least mildly entertaining. I definitely needed a few laughs this ... -matched with this Sunday at a short training session, and in just a week, we ... dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  department, has its own fMRI machine, and at MIT, there always needs to be at ... at MIT.But here's a fun fact: both my roommate and I are performing ... win any prize at all, I still won't be the first (prospective) doctor to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ! ================================================= It could have been any number of early mornings my freshman year at MIT. There I was, slaving over a 18.02 or 8.012 pset at 3AM, being really no ... sentiment echoed many times during my years at MIT from anyone from second

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... , a professor at MIT. Woah. He was there because he's a recitation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... help. It’s been an amazing experience so far. The doctors at the ... from working at the hospital, I’ve also made a couple trips out of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had ... your staff id in your back pocket and listen with rapt interest at ... coolest places on our campus. Looking at it day after day you tend to forget

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  class at MIT on my resume. Not bad. Plus it's my favorite professor's last semester at MIT, so I'm happy to get to work with him teaching his class. 6.01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in the world." Money has always been tight at home, especially after ... him that was a prerequisite for going to elementary school. At 3, he ... Street was a 16, for instance. At Woodstock Elementary, his second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Orientation. (Where was I going? I have no idea, but I was lost.) I had been at ... strangers at Random Hall, still feeling like I'd been displaced into someone ... Paul B. was at least 5 feet tall*. *Actually, he might be over 5 feet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... , Bridger celebrated his arrival at one of the world's most renowned ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots ... opportunity to purchase cheap pharmaceuticals and improve my credit rating at ... obstacles like CAPTCHAs and hyperlink filters. Take a close look at this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  crisis has affected many, here at home and around the world. I know that ... analytic and human skills you will learn-by-doing here at MIT are the exact ... at any time during your four years here, be assured that we will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have ... taking 18.02 and 18.03 at the same time.) Um, so I was talking about Reg Day. The thing is, it was my 8th and final Reg Day at MIT, and despite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... mp3 player and bring it under your ghost costume. At the given signal ... is taking place at Christopher Columbus Park. To find the exact

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... of looking at it), the Stand Up Rally is at Harvard at 7pm this Friday ... . Unfortunately, I won’t be at this, so no blog for you. Eat So They Can Dinner

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008