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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... -pressure probably helped me. I made the cut, for the live round. Turns out my roommate ... meant we were up against each other for a shot at the finals. My roommate

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... 100% sure this is the right school for you but you have external ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... Health and Wellness Tips for College Students (from Rutgers, actually ... Apps/Tools (I use Mint, it’s free and it’s probably overkill for college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  topic for more than ten or fifteen minutes without starting to wander or ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It ... ?). It caught up with me pretty quickly, so I crashed for the rest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow ... convenient excuse for not blogging since February - it’s not that I’ve been too ... .06 (Linear Algebra) after staying up most of the night studying for it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  was just one calendar, for my friend's birthday. The year after, back ... in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... one of the photos. (He doesn't know this yet.) So be on the lookout for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink ... with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes ... injury. It’s probably because for some, the uncertainty of fulfilling a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  more psets. No more classes. No more late nights cramming for midterms ... ’s something we all consider when choosing this fine institution. For every time ... and drifted in a sea of Rachmaninoff and Debussy for an hour and a half

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post ... dorm for all ~four years, communities are tight-knit and develop ... gifts for a randomly-assigned other resident. At the dinner, we make two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for ... . To practice, I e-mailed French House to ask for sample prompts. Every ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for ... Guthrie," I've registered for ceramics glasses over IAP, and after years of ... sparkle with intensity, and the stakes for everything seem higher, even

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  , dress up entirely in pink for the Gangnam Style flash mob in Killian Court ... flew here. Inseperable for 48 hours, we spent a lot of time talking ... Retreat = Having to film for my HASS class entirely on Sunday evening

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  opportunity for a burger. Mr. Bartley's are awesome. Also, their sweet potatoes ... to New England geography...) to Cape Cod. We drove to Wellfleet for the ... the Snow Goose Gift Shop to ask for directions, but ended up talking to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  procedures for you (brought to you by Felix Sun ’15 and Chelsea Voss’15 who did ... Ballroom Dance team for the past 3 years, oh, may be two, since I was away for a year (I did ballroom with the Cambridge team though!) Anyway

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  potential to be, MIT's rationale for it was even more powerful. MIT was ... knowledge to people around the world for free, it should and would. I was busy ... X with Harvard. For this and many, many other reasons, I am honored to come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  . already. So without further ado, my top 10 excuses for neglecting my blog ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... students for a chance at a summer internship. Momentum was a truly amazing

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  teams (team 2 could only trade with teams 1 and 3, for example). On ... 4 gave all of team 4’s points to team 3 in exchange for splitting the ... , because those are what we'll need in the future. After leading for two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... Timeline. Timeline allows for your friends to basically scroll back through ... bothers me. In the beginning, Facebook essentially served as a platform for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  started the afternoon before the conference. After getting Indian food for lunch (all paid for by Questbridge), we set off to unload some stuff into ... appreciation for the Questbridge program, the Quest Scholars Network, and what it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011