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  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  couldn't see in the first picture: Yup. Story of my life. A partial ... November Service Project for Student Leaders in Service (SLiS) - Doing ... lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  brilliant and inspiring people and the sweetest research, but you’re also in a ... final. Before you know it, you’re deeply embedded in the “MIT Bubble ... existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!” Truth of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate ... in the context of a chemistry class, that no amount of astonished

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn ... that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... 's Market for breakfast, although in reality the mango was probably imported ... with . . . ” in order to evoke the accurate positional relationship of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... friends and bonfires in true collegiate style. Wow, sounds perfect, like a ... learn in college, anyhow?" By his account she is an intelligent girl with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences with airplanes in the last 2 years have involved delays, cold, snow, and ... early and woke up early, to weather like this People in Boston will

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is far from "fake" -- actually, it is the true MIT, in a supersaturated ... probably won't see much in the way of tooling, of students working on problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A ... awesomest hat ever, it should be here in about a week or two. We actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  think it's kind of hard. OH, CHRIST. I HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IN." (I ... .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly ... Mr. Antunez, a new teacher who had grown up in Spain and Argentina and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  now and again. In Boston, however, since there are so many people and so ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... , the flash mob became a relevant subject in my life. I started attending

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... in our names and sizes. I realized right away what they had done. They ... course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... structure in constant, intermittently blinding dust storms. I'd look up and ... 'd only been 48 hours since I was just sleeping in a bed and feeling clean

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  's Media Fabrics group. "I am a media junkie," Glorianna announced in her own remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance ... , particularly in an expanded, technically enhanced framework; tools and systems

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... left it in one of the side compartments of the MIT ambulance so we walked

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  and Sam ran it together in 2006). We also got Tuesday off because MIT is ... hand, it’s four days off in a row! Imagine the possibilities! You ... , was in lab all day on Monday, and worked on Tuesday morning, too. Yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  , you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now ... next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences department that are constantly in need of test subjects. No, they won't pick through your brain or

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008