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• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... and relaxing music. We picked out our studs for the next eight weeks and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and turkey await; I gave myself a strict no-homework policy for the next few

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or ... would tell my freshman self to explore more and don't be rigid for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  position and had no pulse for a good 40-50 seconds. He said the likely cause ... brought with me to India is already half-full. For a rural-tribal hospital

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

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... worse – the dreaded neckbeard. And for something entirely automatic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  Achilles heel. It’s not for want of trying. I bake a lot; last summer I kept ... practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  forward to lots more puzzles over the next few weeks so thanks for sharing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  instinct was Method 2, you'd also show a natural talent for parallel parking ... pairs. Or triplets. Or where n-tuplets, where n = n+1 for every time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  signature. He won a Pulitzer for literature, not for autographing.) It almost

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Students consider genre protocols and how ... within a genre or between genres for round-table workshopping. Enrollment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  like SecureFX and WinSCP. We're also responsible for knowing enough HTML ... brand new admissions post is on the front page for you all to read.

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  managed to find my way back to Sidney-Pacific for the night. My host Tina ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  verbal final presentation is also given to a panel of specialists (for this ... did for the last eighteen years of my life - and it really gave me an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  . "What are you doing?! We have to study for our final!!" "QUIET. I ... fast Leaving group needed for it to react Add that nucleophile! [Bridge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  reduce the need for organ transplants by understanding the etiology of ... this is the place for you. I think in some respects you have to be a car

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland, Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... like! I've been on grad school visits for the past 3 weeks, which are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman ... day; my TAs bring ice cream and order us Thai food for late-night study

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  you choose to take. For example, to fulfill one of your physics ... , there is something for everyone. Don’t worry about not finding friends

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... that made them strong candidates for admission. Well, you don't have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  yesterday's entry for, well, more pictures. I, I can remember standing by ... Engineering Museum, which is a strange destination for like 7 MIT students who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006