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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  asleep until 3am (you know that post-essay adrenaline rush?) and couldn ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with ... so, we went to the lobby to check out and get a cab to the airport. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  you could teach people to swim if you wanted to. TSA Agent: Oh. Huh. and ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you ... bags. TSA Agent: Have a good flight. Me: Thanks! TSA Agent: And welcome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Innovation and Design, a class that all GEL1s take). This week was pretty long ... .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... fraternity/sorority and don’t have big productions to put on for your

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at ... bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  , an academic scholar with good SAT scores and solid grades, and an individual with spunk and character. As a result, I strived for A's, worked hard to become really involved in different clubs, and tried to establish

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

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  sort out and clean, but you'd never know that by looking at my dorm room ... too long.That morning was long and filled with a lot of hard work. It ... and I teamed up with MIT's Aspire. Aspire, a graduate student-led group

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room ... of the room and find a seat, you hear a hushed anticipation that swells and grows increasingly palpable. You may have heard about the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  , and I told her about MIT. Unlike most people I had told, her reaction ... are so many awesome people to meet and activities to try (and so much ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... field trips was tragically displaced and represented instead by the title

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  , as I'm working at CTD again this year as an RTA for Neuroscience and ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... something I swore up and down I wouldn't do this year: I joined the MIT Class

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  likely to hear things like ". . . at 6 and then head to the game . . ." or ... "Overheard at MIT" and it's just a huge list of conversation bits that people have compiled online. I've gone through and pulled out a few of my

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  sympathy. I'll probably just be a jerk and say something like "I never get ... my nose and general unattractiveness, I still insisted to my rather ... ever I willingly failed =P) and told me to sleep "a lot" and come back if

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  stories. Shock Monkey I woke up the other morning and, as I do every ... : Anyway, I click on the e-mail and see this: Subject: To Blog About A Dream ... morning, but I just had a really weird dream and I thought I'd write it down

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  on the plane home, and then got home and found out Sam had written his own totally better and more emotional post about his four years at MIT, and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  :45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather ... about all of the airport delays and closings, including O'Hare in Chicago ... family from Nebraska and our head Educational Counselor from South Korea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  Cold War built right through its center and accompanied by a 150-meter ... East-West standoffs, reunites almost by accident in 1992, and then fifteen years later is the capital of Germany and its most popular tourist

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  for a final this weekend, and thankfully the sun came out again after a ... some useful links and tips: a) Make sure you get your web certificates ... ? Check out http://web.mit.edu/answers/zephyr/ and http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  moonlights as a rockstar. And now to our regularly scheduled program: Bryan: hey, so get this, i was walking down mem drive today Bryan: and out ... moved the street Diana: and when we tried hurling the piano to the new

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in ... prototype detector. Under the guidance of Professor Bernd Surrow and a postdoc, senior Laurie Burns is testing and comparing two types of GEM foils that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  ). Yeesh. E&M neurophysics problems and Matlab implementations of ... bad as the previous week's pset. I like alkanes and rotating 3-D ... afternoon (and that one of them was my wonderful patient friend Kevin '06). I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005