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• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... eclectic assortment of MIT undergrad, two cats, and a brood of hens. Every

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and reflect on things. If you do any sort of leadership training program, much

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... ’t sleep, but I am not one of those. None of my close friends are, and I

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can ... imaginations (and engineering skills). Oh, and it is supposed to hold 2000 lbs of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to wear. That has since been replaced by an assortment of sweatshirts, t ... . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures class are working with the Rickshaw Bank, a project of the Center for

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever heard of an ice storm?!?—we don’t have that kind of thing in the West), that was supposed to bring a quarter inch of ice. But I made it here

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now:     Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  peers, it seems like "post-college plans" are a dreaded can of worms that ... came after 6th, and of course, college after 12th. College. Something so ... on some kind of maturation pedestal - and it is worthy of the hype I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of ... committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  of free food? I'm excited. So much so that I'm running two East Campus events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... of other classes. For that reason, 21F.702 (Spanish II) and 14

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011