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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... beauty you can mope dreamily at, but would rather not step into, because

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  without water. They can go without air for 45 minutes or submerged underwater for half an hour. Cockroaches can even live for a week without their ... dust, can run almost as fast as its parents. Cockroaches date back to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  is often, I can escape into my room or a quiet place and when I don’t want to be alone, which is also often, I can always find somebody else ... ,” “not lactation or iocane powder,” “or Europeans who think you can buy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  be fair, the dining halls are all-you-can-eat (and ... efficient system. I still visit the dining halls frequently - you can buy ... Stata Center. For $3.55 I can get an impressively large square of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  is that you can answer questions for subjects you're more comfortable ... (arguably more important). Now that I'm awake I can hit snooze for an hour. 9:00am ... , I can't have that now, better get dressed and cycle down to Sainsbury

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  that if we don't show up for the warm-up, we can't get credit for the ... , and do bicep curls. Then what I can only describe as a tricep curl. Too ... squats. I can't lift my arm higher than parallel to the ground. To point at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  whatever seemed to fit the bill for an application. I can't stress how vital ... helpful resources, which Hamsika can attest to. So if you want to be a ... still can be very stressful being a student here at times, but the premed

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  very strange looks. Whatever. Let the world judge. Also, I can't resist ... medical test for broken toes and bullet wounds is whether or not you can ... I can even "think" about running, and at least 2 weeks on crutches. He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  s, you'll see what I mean soon!). On most weekdays, you can find me in ... Boston Pops started their concert. Along the esplanade, you can actually ... 've had. How many people can say they've watched fireworks in the rain

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  right now but can usually be found graphing properties of ORGANIC ... . Basically: a star runs out of fuel, and can no longer prevent gravity from ... particular reason. In case you can't tell, I'm geeking out here, and loving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  to see fizzing water. They can drink soda for that. Feeling a little ... 't, go find one. He or she will remind you how exciting the world can be, when you're curious about everything and can see the magic in fizzing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  eat dinner at Next House. Even if you're not on a meal plan, you can ... hear, the food is pretty decent, but I can't speak from experience. The ... cereal, peanut butter sandwiches, and pasta*. *As sick as one can get of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those ... school. You can't compare an in-the-classroom learning environment with ... spent a summer back in New Mexico (can't get enough of that place) working

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... the table. I can't tell you how many people came up as I was standing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... paradox of choice: too many options can introduce cognitive costs that ... randomly into the grid at the bottom of pages, so that new visitors can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... river can be a nice break from all the events of the day. Have questions ... at Student Financial Services so you can stop in and get your questions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Calculus: I can't mention 18.02 without describing Professor Poonen, an ... the top of my head: You get brownie points if you can name this. The ... natural intelligence drop off, I can seriously get to work on pursuing more

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can ... ? I can personally withstand a snow-induced catastrophe for at least ... students taking for-credit courses over IAP, you can also spend your time on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... can hear it: "M-I-T! M-I-T! M-I-T! GO MAGGIE! YOU’VE GOT THIS!" A blur ... ), but can be extremely motivational (like at XC Regionals). To all those

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  , what are you-click-doing?!But I can say these shoes were once black… and ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument.” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010