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  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an ... share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... of the Watergate building beneath a white ledge textured with cracks and mineral deposits from the constant dripping of water

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of ... also Einstein's birthday) and the imminent constitution of the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately ... and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  defined by their mastery of rare tools, but by their mastery of common tools. Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily ... people in other contexts, including LMC's Battle of the Bands, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... stellar corpses that emit two beams of radio light and spin around like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  , I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out ... best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the commitment of hosting a prefrosh, so don't feel like you are a burden. However

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman program, I spend a lot of time there. It's a research facility that ... ). Normally, I would be there for my Fundamentals of Computational Media Design

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... because the woman standing right in front of me got to take home the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time ... . You’d think it's an insane amount of time to be doing this, but it’s not ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... parts of the Boston area I *still* haven't seen: Museum of Fine Arts ... , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past ... that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... OOOoo! 20.320 Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems The boring

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

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... ring circus, except instead of elephants,it's nerds; acrobats, calculus; and confusingly just as much juggling. But one of my favorite parts of

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

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... to start looking for opportunities outside of the lab. It was terrifying. For almost five years of my life I had been set on this one path

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some Lobby 7 hacker awesomeness. 1) If you haven't heard of hacking, go here ... one of your eyes, creating a 3D image. The 3D is cool, but irrelevant

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011