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  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  I say to the under-21s in Scotland: don’t be too scared of a drinking ... respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga defacing my MIT ID with a permanent marker. Be warned: the newspapers will spin you a cybertastically-juiceless tale of a bleach ... notice as a truckload of detonated TNT, of a Polaroid press conference

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  's equations. I couldn't have imagined that I would cook for 30+ people on a ... -wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... running lemonade stands. I'll get a real job someday.) Moments of pain are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  [/annotation] even with recurring episodes of tent.     This is a guide to re-sodding a Kresge of your very own.   Step 1: Get rid of all ... dirt in sod, but don't sod the shadowy areas. It is not yet their time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  see is a big body of water, there really isn't anything stopping you ... ideas could be anything: sharpening a t-cell to pierce cancer cells, using ... think of was this linker that's being annoying in a CAR-T I am working on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  , and the outcome isn't a fantasy; it's brutal reality. 'You know exactly ... not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten ... Jordan’s Furniture. I recently found out about this place from a couple of coworkers, but “Beantown” is a replica of downtown Boston entirely out of

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of course, most MIT classrooms don't have whiteboards — they have chalkboards ... that you can’t on whiteboards: make dotted lines. [caption id

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  gifts for loved ones. Don't be the kid rolling up on Christmas Day with a ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us ... events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking ... gridiron football - amidst a growing body of evidence that football causes ... are many reasons, reasons too complex to discuss in a PhD dissertation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... . As you begin having more questions about life at MIT as a freshman, and ... . So, what does this "NBM" include? Among other things:A cover letter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  next wave of applicants. "Just because you haven't heard of a college ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was ... they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and ... only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m the new 8.012 tutor! blah blah blah

  

  Come to my “office hours”! LOL  

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... security craziness and what would inevitably be a very emotionally difficult ... government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  stairwell opening into the third floor, there's a mural of our banner with our motto. Sport Death! Here's a view of another room, this time a double - that of Kel '10 and Thom '10. Many of us spend a lot of time taking up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  one was a humanitarian, it doesn’t seem morally repugnant to save the ... it isn’t a factor, all other things being equal. For instance, logic ... large dose, but it isn’t morally blind either, and seems to be a driving

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020