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  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... and surf your friends' profile pages for 14 hours each day. (I know, I ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the ... archives!" Boo hoo. I've read and tagged them all in four days. Don't be a ... traditional advising, and I turned out just fine. In a more practical sense

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  This is going to be my third CPW, and all I can tell you that you ... Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than frats, sororities, and ILGs) called iHouse - in fact, there's only 20 of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  they can hear themselves). i thought it was cool that our final setup ... equipment; i think i got better at event planning in the process i won ... have no idea what to do with my interest in music now that i’m no longer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... amazing! From chilling in Simmons, where I remember pulling all nighters

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... , and so I can hurry off to the CPW Activities Midway. Honest Signals ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -Y mode allows you to visualize how “out of phase” (i.e., out of sync) two ... in mind, let’s see how everything fits together. There are no physically moving parts in this project, thankfully (I’ve learned my lesson

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people in my class and I consistently felt like my priorities were at odds

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  expressionless.   CAPTION: In the 9th grade… CAPTION: I learned about Bohr ... Bohr atomic model sits in the middle of the panel. The background can be ... moving in this big cloud.   CAPTION: Usually we can guess where they

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  . Also, I'm going to be in Madrid in 4 days and still don't have an ... 're up to over ten bucks! How crazy is that?! Ben, I think you really are a ... I was lucky enough this semester to have only one final exam, which I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  this in the only way I know how :) [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIxbyMxSrcM[/embed] PS - As I read the previously published blogs, I see a bunch of us have picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... , you can figure out the DNA coding for the receptor. Voila! His UROP in ... when dramatic results come in or are on their way. The anticipation can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  Saturday) in teams of four. It's a good deal: five evenings a week, I have a ... at the next table chimes in with "it's pretty amazing how many people ... really special. Juan can speak four languages, and Davie sings in his room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it ... Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  ." What's particularly amazing about Smyly's status in the Infinite is how ... -student club: how, then, can he be allowed on campus so late at night? The ... Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens ... at my interests in mathematics. But I'm not a teenager anymore, and I ... 't know how to confess these reasons, because they seemed so shallow. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  colleague and I were in awe at how exceptionally knowledgeable you and Matt ... hammer home the point of how blogs can be used to build a community, we ... in Ben's blog: ...I just want to compliment you and Matt for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning ... pretty stressful at times, and at the end of the day I was exhausted, I can ... here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force.

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005