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  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... are stupid   3. Sleep just doesn't happen in a hospital   ... . Basically, I want to go home. And I never plan on going to a hospital ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  message and empower students like us to believe that they too can make a difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two ... included Kevin Lilly, founder of Samaritan Steps, a nonprofit that provides

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  required readings, and I am enjoying a breezy carefree summer. I have sadly been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to ... wandered into a tiny park. Its swings, benches, and lounge chairs stood

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  -pretty-maker/organizer, Annie L. '15, a photographer, Raeez L. '14, and I set out to accomplish ... . (graphics/layout). I decided it would be a good time to start making (or restart the making of) a women of the east side calendar, a calendar that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the ... . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my ... generally friendly. The city as a whole (as well as the Amazon campus) is very dog-friendly; you can hardly walk a block without seeing a dog. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... pointed at me: "yes! question?" Me: "You talked a lot about how the public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... ??" Gather your friendship dinner crew and choose a professor. Cordially ... guests confirm. Choose a date and enjoy! "BUT I'M NERVOUS..." Get

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and ... working on in their spare time. Maybe it was a really amazing new computer

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... fastest guy when a bear is chasing you, but only faster than whoever's in ... MIT. It just didn't happen here. It's a curse and a blessing. The

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one ... people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the ... impromptu Disney Sing-a-long tonight! Here's the deets: When: 8 - 10 pm ish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  , two mountain ranges, and about a million different thoughts. The states ... scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of America, breathing, stretching, dancing, hiking, subsisting on a half

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  We've just launched a new MITAdmissions video. It's called "MIT ... told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer ... importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of ... Frisbee thrown in. But basically, a little different than the two-a-day, six

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden ... television of our youth. guilty as charged). Because I graduated a little over a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must ... things off with a lesson from ESD.950, the Engineering Leadership class the ... The Tech, went on a field trip to MassWeb, the newspaper's publisher

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... ) … and reminisced a whole lot -- and then OH-MY-FRICKEN-G’ – I know all the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb ... short of fireworks, yes.) Things are a little different now, since

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters - compared to that, Twin Peaks is merely a foothill!) Polish mountains are ... - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009