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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  more psets. No more classes. No more late nights cramming for midterms ... ’s something we all consider when choosing this fine institution. For every time ... and drifted in a sea of Rachmaninoff and Debussy for an hour and a half

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post ... dorm for all ~four years, communities are tight-knit and develop ... gifts for a randomly-assigned other resident. At the dinner, we make two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for ... . To practice, I e-mailed French House to ask for sample prompts. Every ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  , dress up entirely in pink for the Gangnam Style flash mob in Killian Court ... flew here. Inseperable for 48 hours, we spent a lot of time talking ... Retreat = Having to film for my HASS class entirely on Sunday evening

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  opportunity for a burger. Mr. Bartley's are awesome. Also, their sweet potatoes ... to New England geography...) to Cape Cod. We drove to Wellfleet for the ... the Snow Goose Gift Shop to ask for directions, but ended up talking to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to ... years ago I had mine for MIT, and I had no idea what I was doing coming ... school for at least 3-5 minutes, it's hard to tell whether or not that was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  procedures for you (brought to you by Felix Sun ’15 and Chelsea Voss’15 who did ... Ballroom Dance team for the past 3 years, oh, may be two, since I was away for a year (I did ballroom with the Cambridge team though!) Anyway

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  potential to be, MIT's rationale for it was even more powerful. MIT was ... knowledge to people around the world for free, it should and would. I was busy ... X with Harvard. For this and many, many other reasons, I am honored to come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  . already. So without further ado, my top 10 excuses for neglecting my blog ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... students for a chance at a summer internship. Momentum was a truly amazing

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  teams (team 2 could only trade with teams 1 and 3, for example). On ... 4 gave all of team 4’s points to team 3 in exchange for splitting the ... , because those are what we'll need in the future. After leading for two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... will always be more. Basically, you start to see this: For me, the ... 's hard for me to believe, too.) It has actually been finding the balance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... Timeline. Timeline allows for your friends to basically scroll back through ... bothers me. In the beginning, Facebook essentially served as a platform for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  started the afternoon before the conference. After getting Indian food for lunch (all paid for by Questbridge), we set off to unload some stuff into ... appreciation for the Questbridge program, the Quest Scholars Network, and what it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  -or-less agreeing to let you do whatever it is you want, there's a style for every ... to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since ... for your patience and politeness in pulling in the reigns more than once

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , and epic-scale lust for the power caught up in a little golden ring ... to be going to this production. But we were going for free! :-) And we ... premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus dormitory throw a big party; dorm alumni from decades past return for the ... ) curve is Steer Roast 1990. That year, for a mere $1,000, they brought an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  come across an open area, which you saw on the map and devised a plan for ... us for the day when we may have to take out a real enemy bunker. We put ... country and enlisted members of other services. For my sophomore summer, I

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  for the MIT Cross Country and Track teams, it’s a whole different ... team events, prepare supplies for meets, oh and, of course, cheer. A lot ... they need to have positions/titles like that to compete for admission to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  biography for my blogger homepage, I listed out the reasons I picked MIT over ... . " So genuinely nice. For five hours last night, a few friends and I just ... an ungodly hour for me to still be awake. When I have three tests in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  .) On top of that, moving to a big city for college ended up giving me the ... Boston, but I still get to fly to my awesome hometown for breaks ... with the idea of a small, hipster liberal-arts college for most of high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010