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  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  the semester is stressful for everyone. For me, it's a plodding ... dollars for coffee; I like working in the library, but it was closed today ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  start up in that field (see: genome sequencing). Aim for small wins first ... in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... forces you to build for a real customer; when you have deadlines every few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this ... for. A group of six of us worked for most of the evening and didn’t call

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  Opportunities abound for student entrepreneurs amongst the MIT ... run by students for students. At DRF, college students become investment partners and scour their campuses for the most innovative student startups to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  . This got me thinking: what would a success profile for an MIT student ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... 't too hard for most MIT students.  Your standard class does a good job of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  decided that MIT was the place for me, I spent my weekend traversing the various dorms and houses to decide where I actually wanted to live for the ... only a little over half), and stayed for just about fifteen minutes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some ... (there are varsity heavyweight/openweight and lightweight crew teams for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you ... last Monday for Team MR8 in memory of my friend Martin Richard, who was killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent ... of sleep/studied for 8 hours and still failed!" with a "I only got 3 hours of sleep/studied for 20 hours/went to office hours and still failed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... so we (me and another very close friend) met him for a meal before ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  wearing a firefighter costume I bought off Amazon for a separate occasion ... ever, after having dyed hair for more than six years now. I've always ... make dinner for our vegetarian Co-op that night.  Shaws is about a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for ... staying up till 4am each night for the past week.     Ok, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into ... their final dorms (sometime Wednesday), it’s time for In-House/Floor Rush

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  arrived, he suggested that I borrow his sister's mountain bike for the ... around the parking lot for a while. I felt okay, so off we went! The first ... , and suddenly (like magic!) I had enough energy to keep going for a while

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  announcements for free activities. Over Memorial Day weekend, we met the Boston 1 ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... weekend, we signed up for a canoeing trip and picnic lunch along the Charles

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  seen, although I suppose you could think of the chain as a metaphor for ... " for "telescope") but I'll finish off with a discussion of light ... detectors, so for many centuries astronomers relied on them. For example, when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  with the Men In Black Headquarters, except without aliens (for now). Normally, I would be there for my Fundamentals of Computational Media Design class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  for my next blog post and I took a dainty sip from my aluminum water ... was predictably cold and the Student Center was empty except for a lady ... prepare for something.” I highly recommend Urban Dictionary for all your

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

   Answer: Stuff that I paid for. Right Answer: Stuff that I got for free at the ... the world had come for the sole purpose of recruiting me! Well, not ... I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013