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  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  form of peer pressure is not at all bad. Everyone at MIT has a passion of ... as their neighbors, not because they feel pressured to, but because

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  for Mic Check...   ...and moved on! That might not seem ... ." - Found on the internet! And some others! Like, "Dead chemists are not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... . Nutmeg is an excellent team player, but not a stand-alone star. To put this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  , to know that even after six months of not touching a steering wheel, I ... to be someone/something you're not. Sigh...

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  , why, it must be because I have a math class at 12 PM and would not like ... Postscript, Python, C, C++, Haskell, and Java. I have not heard of half of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  see it too. So I do something that I have not done since August. I ... you and for myself. It's not perfect, but I tried.

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  [CORRECTION: his name is Brayden], did not live in Random but nonetheless could ... . The audience exploded in applause. Teddy apparently does not comply

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  association does not appreciate someone describing a Latino pride celebration as ... without any mention of whether or not I am part Latino. **Update: Next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  square completely, and so clearly this would be not an error on my part. In ... Youtube and a deep fryer. Granted that this was not the most efficient or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  " (known as the "UP" - pronounced "you pee," not "up" as in the direction ... /stolen from Sam, although I probably will not be able to pull it off as cleverly

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was ... -blowingly beautiful. But it's not the same. Is everything just a matter of perspective

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  if they're not one of these international award winners, that they ... 're not one. Every class at MIT does have a share of über-geniuses (some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... , the audience delves deeper and deeper into Hugo's mind (which is not a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  sororities are NOT your stereotypical sororities at all. The girls I met were ... about the title of the party- but let's not go there now), a Heaven and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  While presidential elections are normally associated with debates, Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... blind vote was taken and (not surprisingly) it was a tie. This ensures

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  you'll be hooked. Promise. I mean, it's Italian pop music! What's not to ... 't tell Snively. He'd never see the sun again.) Plus, completely not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  teaching people not only how to program, but how to think about programming ... whether or not it's possible to calculate something in finite time. At the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  of my photos have changed in size. I'm not quite sure how this happened ... . Bradley not only pointed me to a site with photos of these other hacks, he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  dorm, Simmons Hall. Well, how could you not love Simmons?! They have a ... to prove, Caltech students are not as smart as they think they are

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007