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  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  O.M.G. It's over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the ... got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for ... know freshmen. For my part, my first task of orientation was to build an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  for school. For some reason, the whole sci-fi/fantasy world has never ... which for some reason look like people (vain creators perhaps?) creep me ... , businesspeople, professors or scientists for parents (or aunts or uncles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha ... as mentors, role models, guides, and resources for the students who ... . Responsibility for the house is shared by all and everyone is expected to do their

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired This has been going on for ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... , which made for a frequent point of contention between me and my once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... roommate picked up the following gem on sale for 50 cents at the grocery market last Thursday. It passes for a can of Crayons until you pick it up

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

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... College, for one. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Bob Jones ... month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... Iman Kandil who is a senior and has been involved with the MSA for all four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... for the tale of the midnight tool: Prologue: Having taken BC Calc AP in high school, (though not getting credit for it like I should've...) I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... they wanted to study, what they liked to do for fun. What made them tick ... first discovered my passion for biomedical research. Unsurprisingly, every

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  dogs, we roast over 300 pounds of meat over a giant spit for 17 hours ... courtyard, but alums - who return en masse for Roast every year - state ... the courtyard and crowded on balconies for the pit lighting: A

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... continual assessment, and are given maybe a few days to prepare for tests, and

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the ... well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for ... serve as one of the dorm's defense systems (they can open the door for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  to MIT Medical, where they tested me for strep (negative. First test ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me ... meeting my group for my **CI-H class, one girl showed up without a voice

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  around. For example. But this entry is about languages. Unfortunately, MIT ... languages. There are words which are identical except for the spelling ... Rome for 2 days this spring. Or, maybe I should say, hopefully I learned

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  'm all for taking pictures, even having taken many stupid ones myself ... books. I know I've never gone there for books. I go there because it ... -desk-things that are perfect for setting up shop and spending several hours buried in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  but worry as I waited for the Admissions Staff to send back their reply. I thought that MIT was perfect for someone as passionate about biology as I was - but would MIT be so well suited for my second passion? Would

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities ... the narrator for the retirement ceremony. The 20-year-old cadet, so

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2) posting it when I had no wireless. Not cool, Sam. Actually I went out for ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... Wah Bus ride away from Boston, we decided to head down for the most ... for no other reason, because I got to have a 13-word conversation with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  "technology", but are people socially aware,m for example? Are there people ... of fact, I do shower. Daily. (If that's not enough for you, I also wash ... pretty notorious for having a pretty intense workload - there was an 18

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007