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  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... astronomy. Here's another one (context: Satan is traveling to Heaven) "Down

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well.  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing EMT exams, I am trying to take a less stressful courseload, and so far

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56 ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe ... , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City ... busses to more expensive and less environmentally friendly planes, unless ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... all this, Chris sent me this article to read, and it cleared up my ... article useful to all of you as you embark on college apps/scholarship apps

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of studying here reminds me that I'm pretty fortunate to have had the opportunity myself. That's an easy thing to forget when you've got your head

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  before to finish three psets, so we were planning to keep each other awake. xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish ... . You just have to not join every single club/organization that you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... to create a "Think Local First" campaign^^ for this island. I’m working ... the University of Hawaii - Hilo to develop the marketing plan for this

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... ☺ And that happens to be just a little too far away, haha. Following two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010