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  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  up the courage to do it, the EC courtyard is the place for you! We have ... showing up for a lovely home cooked meal. Make your own fire spinning prop ... excited for the REX events we’re hosting for y’all this year. This year, our

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  , and opportunities for entrepreneurs that have art-related start-ups like ... donated clothes that audience members brought to donate for charity and for ... Sustainability Minor for the Class of 2017 and younger. He also suggested

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer ... 't feel like you were just retaking AP chem. For me I feel like there were a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... ? Last semester it was “no” for me, but this semester it’s “yes, I am totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... mode - did a little work, chilled out a lot, ended up on the Dean's List

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism ... washing machine up stairs? why doesn't my apartment have a pot rack?), her ... my home for four years. But that's just a hallway covered in sharpie

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  perfect. Go ahead, take your pick and then read below for the answers ... be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you ... shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... for some context. One of the major breakthroughs in biology came when ... restriction enzyme will allow you to cut up DNA and paste different combinations

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  dressed up super pretty for the final awards ceremony!  It was so much fun ... materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  cleaner than the Charles, I really miss the 17 miles of running paths set up ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... world in my UROP, where I take ground-up turkey carcasses and put them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  for my email address. It's up there in the blog banner, and anyone is ... history. Since there are so many people applying for so few undergrad spots ... for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  Concerned Parent brought up an issue in Ben's blog (about halfway ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... . I don't understand why colleges don't offer up more triples. Yes, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  ride to allston for dinner, and sometimes just wander up and down the ... to be done for comedy, or to emphasize the sad; rather, there is an ... spring, briefly joined Next Act, a show performed in Next House for CPW

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... graduation. For decades, almost every student to graduate from Deerfield had ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  my pants, and I have not studied enough. We have signed up for it; we ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  indispensable!!!!!), a zipcard (I’ve used this to drive to pick up food for events ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... for life now. It also has an MIT Mechanical engineering carabiner on it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  business from MIT that makes it easier to write up plans for building ... Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the ... 's not just all work and no play, so for the past six hours, we got to ride

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  opposite our hostels and classes for prayer. And each Sunday, the Christian ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016