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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... . '79 worked on completing squanch mug and shirt orders for current and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  awoke every summer day at about Price is Right (10:00am for normal folks ... kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little ... comfy chair and a computer, what more could an eleven year old kid ask for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  : "hey all, i'm sorry for the noise coming from the kitchen bathroom - i ... rate i will be done in the next 15 minutes. again, thank you so much for your patience, its for 2.671. Hugs, E" Playing sine waves in the shower

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... going to be here for CPW itself - ESP is flying me to California, to teach

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway ... Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ... for the tests was honestly the worst experience for me. I stressed so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... noon, he'd give the posters flaky biscuits. Now, the reason it's hard for

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  interns for the summer, I was all like, “yay! I will not be the least ... , thanks for beating me senseless with unintuitive C optimization hacks and ... hall in East Campus for all four years, including preorientation, and two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  ideas for the page and working with the communications team on an Español ... this page as a resource and share it with their families; whether for the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi ... imagined that that it would be the place for me. If you're a prefrosh and ... for it! Here's a stellar guest post from current resident Dan Parker '15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We ... they settle into this new role. Thanks for reading! If there are other

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  reenergized my desire to experience Wagner. Prospects for me not only managing ... and agree to win Brunnhilde for Gunther. Meanwhile, Brunnhilde receives ... ending because it worth watching for yourself! In any case, if you know the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... 't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for ... , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  Chinese dinners with my relatives for a week was great! Still, nothing ... college. At the same time, take some time to thank your family for the little things. Cooking dinner for you. Buying you more toothpaste when you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us ... cabins. Given that 90% of the gifts I received for Christmas was outdoor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012