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  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  Hello Interwebz! Our campus is swarming with high school students and free food. It’s all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh! I’m excited too! In fact, this is also…

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

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

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do it while procrastinating on something far more important. I clean my room as a last resort…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a bit of…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP–Independent Activities Period–is soon coming to a close! Spring semester begins Tuesday, and so will begin the class I’ve been diligently preparing for all IAP–6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  forms (e.g. teacher recommendations, secondary school report, transcript

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  Shop skills, and Banti G. '17 for modelling):    * In mid-October, fall arrived

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  carry batteries." (Thanks Keri G. '10 for telling us that!)    

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  's probably smart." Because when you get into a capital-g Great school, you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I learn best. What I found after Interphase was that lectures alone didn’t cut it for…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of…

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Jellyfishing…GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway!  Presently, I’m sitting here on Saturday night (well I guess it’s…

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . g) Then we drove to Provincetown, which is at the very far tip of Cape

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  The scene: Friday morning, about 9:10am Me: *Sits down at table with a bunch of people I don’t know* Instructor: “Ok, each team should select a leader. Once you have,…

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. ’15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields. An inhabitant of East Campus(5W) and an active member of the class of 2015, Danny always has his…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation with hiking or museum visits or…

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

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Peru – but Darthur G, apparently an avid fire breather, showed off his

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Natalia G. ’14 at the Tech Catholic Community’s Friday night pasta feed. Her

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  I absolutely hate picking favorites. My grandmother always said never to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway. Because I truly, truly…

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  officially gone. I have no backups, I have no caches, they were just gone. G

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The beeping oh god the beeping it’s driving me insane I am so tired and then it stops, only…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008