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  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the ... at least the 1960s – gives me confidence that we have not offered a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  that mesmerized me: Tristan+Isolde, which is similar to Romeo & ... reenergized my desire to experience Wagner. Prospects for me not only managing

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  magnificent idea. So let me tell you about our most recent discovery! Whilst ... case of the screaming abdabs, Eliza handed me a lantern and I began

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... balloons, and Voltage Coffee's owner, Lucy, who made me a ridiculously

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  my super warm electric blanket (hooray to Mommy who made me bring it to ... managed to have a decent conversation with him! He talked to me about his

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  /see pictures and not hear me ramble on, follow this link) I peaced out of MIT ... English and graciously translated for me throughout my trip. Whenever she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  showed me...it might be time to pencil in some downtime. Although the ... affluent or grown-ups working in the real world, but for a student like me

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  marked my earlobes with two black dots and showed me in the mirror ... and said the piercing would feel like a shot. He told me to take a deep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  explain the configuration. Bear with me, but my Paint skills are not superb ... games, explained to me in broken English by two girls. We were father

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  temperatures and conditions rise and fall. For me, summer and fall mean rock ... tell you. But that's what it look like to me.) The nuts part comes due

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Happy Holidays everyone! I can't believe another semester's done and over with - pushing me officially past the halfway point at MIT. (AHHH ... much can change in just one week. It took just a minute or two for me to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  before me, with a far higher GPA on harder classes. And he's way cooler. When he first told me he was going into the final for the last and most

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  Andrew Luck:     This is unquestionably a tribute to me ... return. What's that, Andrew? You'd like to give me your signing bonus after

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  there is in me. I remember when I told him last year that I'd gotten ... applications will then be sent to additional admissions "readers" (like me) who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . To me, he was simply a great teacher, in every sense of the word. He ... have had a teacher like you that made me excited to be at MIT, to learn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  singlemindedly fight me to the death until he got it back, which brings me back to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  familiar* Enhance it further: Oh my gosh! That's me! And the ... Birds beanies. (That's me in the red that the finger is pointing to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  't call on me. Maybe that's why I still like him.) 5.13 Organic Chemistry ... &A video...). Send me your questions (either by posting the comments or e

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  have teenagers at home, I realize this makes me an “authority/ parent ... nods at me while I continue talking after he is finished railing about

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  emailed me, "i cannot imagine how difficult comparing 17000 applicants ... me introduce to you our new bloggers! Class of 2015: 

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011