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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about ... pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who ... the authority to open up the wall whenever he likes. It also means that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from ... end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  , bread. (2) Forget to add mayo. (3) Hike 10 miles through snow, over ice ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70 ... from Anna’s. It’s good to be back. Anyways, it’s IAP (Independent

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  left was to make the sprint from Maseeh Hall to the Student Center to use ... ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... has been as close to a Hell Week as I’ve ever been. You might be

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

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

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... denotes we were too poor to have any more than one bag of chips. Most

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students. Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  Now that the semester has started, it's an opportune time to ... bake dozens and dozens of cookies? The scintillating answer to those ... making, I have no problems with contributing to life lesson #2 But beyond

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka ... their words. They'd like to write about why 'Going Greek' was the best ... ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did ... me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  I was extremely stoked to finally visit. Not only was it my first time ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009