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  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  world. It does a wonderful job of taking the reader step by step through ... from management types followed by amazing trailers and the occasional bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  ...booooooooooooooo!!!) so I was done by Wednesday of finals week. That evening, I went with ... were lifted into the air by invisible ropes or on invisible platforms (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the ... cars and drove over to our hotel, a sunny Days Inn by the highway, where

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  This semester has been quite quiet so far - just how I like it.  And by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... Sixties, taught by the East Campus Housemaster, Kate Delaney.  Kate and Tom

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

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the ... grades are released, OR by February 15th, whichever is earlier. The form

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  the brim with questionable artwork drawn by yours truly. This last week ... . Hopefully as the semesters go by, I’ll figure out how to manage my time better

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  concert venue by covering the blackboards with silly chalk art and dressing ... even kidding--it was a song from a James Bond movie and they ended it by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  are conducted by TAs: in the physics department (MIT PHYSICS <3) recitations are always conducted by a professor. This is not the case in any

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  by SaveTFP. There are residence based advising study breaks, like the ... freshly baked brownies and blondies supplied by the friendly floor two GRTs

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  drawing concept art. Yeah… I guess I get inspired pretty intensely by media ... Tube channels: HankGames, Tabletop (by Geek and Sundry), Team Hypercube, or TheRunawayGuys.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  a student was unable to complete a course by the end of the semester ... opportunity to turn in late work by an assigned date. Upon completion of the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  amplify the wobbling by resonating with it and probably fall off the line. I ... 'll get better at finding balance day by day. Signing off, Allan  

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by on exams simply by studying and putting in the minimum amount of work

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... 'm creative.' There is nothing more fundamentally creative than engineering. By

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  reach of seats by the window. I wrote for a while. I thought of Anis ... the half-formed ideas, and usually, by the time I return to them, they

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  .  And by that, I mean our instructor said: "I want you all to design a ... discovered the joys of Illustrator (by "recently", I mean "10 hours ago

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  off/landing. A survey done by Newser found that 56% of respondents would ... -seat-on-the-plane-id-rather.html [2] Credit: Jason Hethertington/Getty [3] By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make the trip by myself, I asked Natnael if he'd tag along with me ... time to get to the hotel. By the time we arrived at HQ, we were an hour

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  intense, it refused to be subdued by the iced tea I picked up - although ... 'm not knocking Nutella by any means - I'm going to try to find their

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... sculpture, carved in the shape of our ring comm's logo, was lit by that red

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012