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  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the opportunities I have here? Am I happy here? During one of my reflection times, one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of ... the room and attached another bag of morphine to the plastic tube which ... weeks staring at the ceiling, pondering life, pain, and the existence of a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  , which was already late on day two of school. “Hey, instead of doing ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film theory classes because I was forced to consider what I was going to make of

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

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  traveling I've done this summer finally reminded me of a guest entry I meant to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of ... develop project ideas for MIT students to work on. We spent most of our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during ... quick and dirty introduction to the fundamentals of circuit building and ... lot of sense. All in all, I love this class so far. 2.002-Mechanics and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so ... . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to ... athletic commitments. Even better, some of the highest-achieving teams here

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  photo of me outside of 77 Mass Ave. (So this is where my application ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... , I will highlight some of my favorite events of the weekend! The Stata

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... survival of snowmen everywhere! We will defend! If I could give them out ... has officially dumped on MIT, creating about a foot of snow all over

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  I'm fairly sure all of you are familiar with the fact that MIT has ... Institute of Technology......) But one of the largest challenges, at least for ... psetted, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Guitar Hero on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems ... ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture and music. We've been studying the "griot" people of Senegal lately, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... that I have a lot of crap. 20ish trips and multiple breaks later I had

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... amazing three-day conference, which was attended by hundreds of people

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my ... my bike, but I haven't seen it in any of the normal places I go, so I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ... sent back radar images of the surface. We got to see the images shortly

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben's post regarding the official release date of ... finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of ... talking about what to blog about.) Also, nobody likes the suspense of big

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  ...") Of course, this eliminates the chances of getting a second opinion, and ... senioritis or my loathing of AP Stats and yes, I would go see my doctor if she ... talk, I immediately started taking care of myself. Hello, throat lozenges

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... and great, Neha had gotten in! But what about the two of us? What was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high ... . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school ... webmaster, Odyssey of the Mind, marching band, writing awkward blog posts

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college. The colors, graphics, and images provide an impression of life here ... , etc. - and strive to make each aspect of them representative of some

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  Delray Beach. Masakazu Toshikage, the consul general of Japan in Miami ... suburban Lantana. A resident of suburban Lake Worth, he will be attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., this fall. He plans to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006