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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  ;14), Alice Hartley (MBA ‘12), Meng Heng Touch (Physics ‘12

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with preset furniture, dorm rules, and maybe even a giant curved wall that doesn

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I’m not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up in the ‘sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have confused you into thinking that…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It’s the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due – although, at this point, “night” is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was Delve, an AP preparation course run by…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  The four questions I’m going to address: 1) “It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it’s just…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So…remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter with Alan Guth? If you…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had “tryouts”: we took a shot at playing every instrument…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working for the…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  West Coast-ers and international students take note: when it snows in Massachusetts, the precipitation comes down in shovelfuls. Now if you’re like some of my friends from warmer climes, you…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I’m a drummer. You probably knew that, but you most definitely didn’t have a gratuitously-added picture – in which I pretend to twirl a drum stick…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  that his daughter would be attending MIT this year. Hey, Sarah ’14, how

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  such a big family. (5) Exhaustion - I've had to endure three 14-hour

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  challenge of comforting a 14-year-old girl who had lost her healthy son of six

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  12-14 students for interviews, which usually consists of an informal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  on the 14th. Woo! I can be tried as an adult now! Anyway, I've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  neuroanatomy class (9.14), a developmental neurobiology class (9.18), a systems

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a rockstar. Hawk Cam Have you guys seen the hawk-cam yet? Funny story - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  E, Course 6: EECS, Course 14: Econ, Course 16: Aero/Astro, Course 18: Math

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006