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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  environment in which my actors can make discoveries on their own. Finding new ... the best they can be. That was my favorite part. But even after all this ... you care so much and work so hard to make a piece the best that it can

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  be fair, the dining halls are all-you-can-eat (and ... efficient system. I still visit the dining halls frequently - you can buy ... Stata Center. For $3.55 I can get an impressively large square of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  energy from it, because a system that can effectively suck energy from surroundings can be called somewhat alive (aka life emergence question). Neat ... knowing about the magnetic field as these bodies were forming can tell us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  is that you can answer questions for subjects you're more comfortable ... (arguably more important). Now that I'm awake I can hit snooze for an hour. 9:00am ... , I can't have that now, better get dressed and cycle down to Sainsbury

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Road. There are campfires in driveways, where you can stand by strangers ... brothers. The acronym 'scuba' stood for "little can of air I strap on my back ... middle of his brother's story, Jacques hooks him up to the little can of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to ... MIT has to offer, things can and do go wrong.  It’s a law that holds ... , which states that "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  three days. And, if you're sly (or legitimately busy, but nobody can tell the difference if you don't let others on to your reasoning), you can ... that I can say right now, but there will be more to come! The non

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  that if we don't show up for the warm-up, we can't get credit for the ... , and do bicep curls. Then what I can only describe as a tricep curl. Too ... squats. I can't lift my arm higher than parallel to the ground. To point at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  whatever seemed to fit the bill for an application. I can't stress how vital ... helpful resources, which Hamsika can attest to. So if you want to be a ... still can be very stressful being a student here at times, but the premed

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  very strange looks. Whatever. Let the world judge. Also, I can't resist ... medical test for broken toes and bullet wounds is whether or not you can ... I can even "think" about running, and at least 2 weeks on crutches. He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  s, you'll see what I mean soon!). On most weekdays, you can find me in ... Boston Pops started their concert. Along the esplanade, you can actually ... 've had. How many people can say they've watched fireworks in the rain

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  right now but can usually be found graphing properties of ORGANIC ... . Basically: a star runs out of fuel, and can no longer prevent gravity from ... particular reason. In case you can't tell, I'm geeking out here, and loving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  digital camera. A flashlight. An umbrella. Something warm that you can ... , like an MIT hoodie. A highlighter, so you can highlight all the events ... . You can get the better, updated list with event descriptions by stopping

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... available for a while. You can note in the Midyear Updates box that you are ... -- have no concept of "midyear grades." This is okay. You can ignore the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  to see fizzing water. They can drink soda for that. Feeling a little ... 't, go find one. He or she will remind you how exciting the world can be, when you're curious about everything and can see the magic in fizzing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  community. It can only produce a bunch of test scores and GPAs crammed into ... a diversity of skills, experiences, knowledge, background, who can all ... mix of students who will, as a collective, form the best class that can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  eat dinner at Next House. Even if you're not on a meal plan, you can ... hear, the food is pretty decent, but I can't speak from experience. The ... cereal, peanut butter sandwiches, and pasta*. *As sick as one can get of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those ... school. You can't compare an in-the-classroom learning environment with ... spent a summer back in New Mexico (can't get enough of that place) working

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... the table. I can't tell you how many people came up as I was standing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... paradox of choice: too many options can introduce cognitive costs that ... randomly into the grid at the bottom of pages, so that new visitors can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011