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  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  Recently I considered sprinkling (read: coating) ramen powder on ... induced coma, I spent the last few days working on those things I put off ... 's been easy to put off what I'd prioritize on any given Sunday morning

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... ://igem.org/About ) More specifically, I work on the tissue culture (TC)/ transfection part ... effort to update me on the project via Skype when I was in England and has

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this ... was made of. Now fast forward to today and what is on my mind. Today, I ... make me smile and keep on going with more passion than before. She is why

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  Scholars, Truman Scholars, and so on - but more than that, it's created a ... . Looking back on my two and a half years here, I am most proud of my ... /see pictures and not hear me ramble on, follow this link) I peaced out of MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... reflecting on my past semester... On the one hand, perhaps that's because I'm too afraid to jinx myself by making some general statement about MIT. On

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  : shave on October 31st do not shave again until December 1st see what ... , Movember, an Australian variant of the practice that focuses exclusively on ... Novembeard, I must denounce their heresy. Like putting beets on burgers, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  mild fall, many leaves are still on their trees, increasing the surface area vulnerable to the storm. Heavy snow, catching on leafy trees ... , because they haven't been able to work on them with the power out. While I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... community involvement on our website via the blogs several years ago. But ... , and especially on Facebook, across a variety of groups maintained not by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma ... curiously charming roundabout way, is freshmen advisors. When you arrive on ... prepared you to dive headlong into the rigors of MIT, but on the other end of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always ... application because it was posted around the same time as an entry Yan shared on Facebook that I clicked on while bored. But this is what I get out of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or ... -working girl is happy with her life but has been so focused on her career (or you ... make their own or just come and vote on their favorites. To me it was the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  documents haven't shown up on the application tracker. Here's why: we ... things that arrive today to not appear on the tracker for another week or ... 't stress! Midyear Report. Though it is not yet available on MyMIT, you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  on campus at the ungodly early hour of 6:30am, then headed off to the ... accommodate everyone, and so the main event (the holiday prayer) was held on a ... away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you ... brownies featured on Oprah were a disaster in my hands. But, if there is one ... from my mistakes, and moved on. I changed how I studied, focused on

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on ... out" but that's a tough philosophy to motivate yourself on. As astute readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  move on from here. -- To me, summer has always been the time for some ... summer reading list and catching up on a whole list of movies ... “catching up with culture and society,” I also have on the list reacquainting

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga”) photographed on the top floor of the MIT museum using a Polaroid ... yesterday morning on a couch, faced* with the hard, hard realization that ... : Which escalated into: The people on the other side of the street on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... perspective on MIT - especially its pretty amazing housing system. (If you ... ??) Things have changed a lot in the last four years. I no longer live on that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  closely there are similarities to that species on Earth that we all know as ... their own projects abroad or in the lab. - However, the conditions on ... 't have time to breathe." Night only falls for 4-8 hours a day, depending on

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  you the most good. Interpretations of each can be found on a page of ... to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one ... character traits do you most value? Not everything fits on the application

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009