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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... staying warm on a budget is that it's all about layering. Not only does this let you adjust to different temperatures (by putting on/off layers), but

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  at East Campus now, and not Next House, I'm spending a lot more time on ... group of friends who understand me. I'm continuing on with the Design ... Astro department canceled classes on Thursday and Friday for the AeroAstro Centennial

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  from your rank list because if you do not match with any school on ...  you'd like to add. Note your full name and "QuestBridge" on ... , some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis. Completing an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  to me was: What do you want to work on during junior year? Junior Year ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... relies on resources - time and people - as fuel for information. I’m always

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... . So when you're cutting down on the things you're bringing, make sure to ... even just be your unleashed artistic creativity on an unsuspecting wall

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  spread our help across campus. More on that some other time, it's CPW! CPW ... got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... Campus' CPW this year is "The Great Depression." On Thursday we celebrated

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  because our hostel doesn't serve breakfast on Sundays and apparently neither ... TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma ... girls were lying on their backs, refusing to get up - and the guy from

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

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  . Inhale, raise arm. Exhale a little, press gently on the trigger until you meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without ... BANG!, pull the trigger all the way back and keep sight on target even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly sub-par metaphors that, upon deeper analysis, actually expound on the ... underlying theme of lost love. On the other hand, I would reply that it simply

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on ... : On MIT's responsibility to lead educational innovation: "Everyone wants

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  you working on? What does your startup do?" "We uh... .... we're a ... on a huge dream, the office moves very quickly and the app is scheduled ... been pretty much what I imagined. Everyone on our team is driven, great

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... reflect on things. If you do any sort of leadership training program, much ... around, I had mostly stabilized out, so it looked like things were on the

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

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... year; it depends on how the pool looks. Basically, if you've been

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... true meaning of IHTFP. MIT can be a wonderful or awful place depending on ... different things on campus. But having been here for a year, you realize that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  pizza!! On a different note, today is World Suicide Prevention Day ... spread additional awareness of what MIT offers to help people on this day ... ^3 is the support center on campus and if anyone ever feels ill or is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  , and I'm actually on campus about as often as when I was still a student ... post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said ... nowadays. (Seriously – I don't know what goes on outside of my office. Is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say now I quite enjoy being able to stream BBC Radio to Zanzibar while on ... one day a wise old man, Stuartus Schmillius, came down from his home on

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  . There are lots of other things going on, but as far as structured ... that everyone can see units dramatically exploding on the map during the ... causation, then living on my hall would make you pretty good at web

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  into a routine at MIT. Psets due every week on Tuesday and Thursday ... always had time to do X and Y and then pile on Z. But, MIT has so many ... starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , said he got a phone call around 5:30 a.m. Several Swedish men were on the ... lived in the Phi Delt house on Bay State Road in Boston, near Kenmore ... writing "a final research paper on baseball's 1919 'Black Sox' scandal. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011