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• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with ... chairs and a lamp, all we really want to do is fall into bed and sleep and ... that even after our good days, all we want to do is eat dinner at 5:30 on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  worth it. I take it all in and try to just do it. Sometimes I fail ... Jedi mind tricks). You start to feel like you need to do everything and ... do it all now. It's okay to jog instead of run. Keep up at a steady

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  and gives an hands-on experience doing it from start to finish, and 2 ... finding some place for PE credit (climbing again? don't mind if I do!) It ... far. I'm more productive when I have a lot to do.   ??? There

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... to give jobs to. I've spent the past two IAPs doing internships for ... it out! I won't make any money if you do; in fact, the Amazon S3 bucket

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ample down time for doing things with your friends. I've been working with ... management so much, but there are dozens of us. So what do I do with such a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan ... /internship applications. Anyway, long story short—While I was doing market research, I ... exactly what we were designing Slate E&D to do, excect we were planning

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  work I have to do, I remember the opportunities I've had to learn from ... hard to understand...) At that time, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life but I at least knew that I wanted to be doing something

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  about something you do for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer ... you must apply. We do not have preferences or different admission rates ... do so with the knowledge that it will not disadvantage your application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  .13 reaction: who cares? How do you even pronounce “amines”, anyway?” The post-5 ... that your human existence depends on. Do you recognize this guy? This ... .” This is more related than you would think to... 21L.301: Doing Right This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  away enough free time to do more science? Is it vanity? Is it masochism ... postmodern literature. Stumbling toward the nearest couch, I am about to do ... is something as straightforward as doing algorithms homework outside

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the ... numbed themselves to survive the camps. So do astronomers deaden themselves ... exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.) Does the average astronomer doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... , definitely do not have cultures that everyone is drawn to. Thus, I know of many ... as LGBTQ?” and “How often do people in your living group use words such

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Sciences lab, or somewhere else? Do I even get to be paid for this stuff? And ... challenging for me :p   Studying a ton for 5.12, and doing a 9.00 essay / laundry. Wait, that sounds like my actual to-do list... If you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  of course, he should do it. And then I started to think about the kids ... , mathematical, or biological principles. They do what all good books and art of this type should do. They bring the heady, technical, and scientific

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  social creatures, and learning from what our friends do and taking on those ... . Andrews wasn't all wrong: the “Don't do drugs” bit still holds some weight ... of how much we love what we do. But on some level I don't think it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the ... people and say, "hey, I'm interested in working with you - do you have any ... , you should check out their new website - and once you do that, go

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  oh look! Greek yogurt is right here), decision-making (do I follow ... ). I could do all that, but there’s a pear clafouti recipe I’m dying to ... -week performance period than I probably normally do in a two-month period. Middle

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  IAP-you operate at your own level. Want to go abroad or do an externship or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or ... can’t do MISTI I’m looking forward to this class. 21L.702 Studies in

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  schools do not provide any midyear grades, homeschooled students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a hardcopy of your ... exam grade. (Do not create your own midyear grade by averging these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011