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  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  pause and take in everything around you. Some of you have already gotten in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  Fall semester began as expected, with a shot of adrenaline and confidence. This translated into a flurry of calendar-marking, schedule-planning, promise-making, and more personal resolutions than all of my New Years

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... got into Reddit (bad idea at this time of semester), especially r

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale), each with their own colors and crest, honestly reminded me of Harry

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  ," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I ... months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of ... justice instead of problem sets for a night. The week continued. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall ... lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if ... is an amazing mural on the wall of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  Yesterday evening Random Hall residents prepared a CPW fantasy feast. Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ ‘16. The foods highlighted in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to ... with full kitchens, which I haven't really taken advantage of save for ... journey of "Non-Ramen Cooking in the Kitchen".  The beginning of the summer

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... very different from leading a team of engineers in a technical project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... position right now to a lot of people: my past teachers, my professors, my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  perfect, considering it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about ... filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two ... of Effective Engineering Leaders.” Some examples from earlier this ... ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011