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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the “101 Things To Do Before You Graduate” list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during orientation, every freshman receives a list…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ) and 21H (History). Between the three of us, we span almost 1/4 of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  <NEWSFLASH> I woke up Thursday morning, realized it was March 1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn’t load fast enough. There it was: The E-mail…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  love it. H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), along with Senate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions, for one thing. MIT finals, for another (AHHHH). Deadlines for regular decision applications to college, and, for many…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school’s production of Little Orphan Annie. Tessie is, like Annie, a little orphan, but unlike Annie, she’s a wimp. When situations get rough,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to study abroad in college. The International…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in red and pink burst through the door. “Excuse me, professor!” The first one cried, as we all gaped…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  Introducing the world's first-ever* joint MIT admissions blog post! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears. *Backed by absolutely no research or factual evidence. Also, Happy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  holes.), Five bottles of free hand sanitizer, courtesy of H1N1. (In a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  ; Obama to Boldly Go Where No Geek Has Gone Before</h2 >12/24/2008, 10

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  Last week was Veterans Day, which meant a four day weekend! The perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you’re smart. I’m not,…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact same taste in music: classic rock, blues, and jazz, and that’s pretty much it. We can…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  the class. 4. You HAVE to take a CI-H HASS during your first semester if

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  pronunciation lession: "j" in Spanish is that throaty "h" sound you probably

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  in your room, like hamsters, or rocks, or your roommate. Judy H

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  , electricity workshops offered through the 4-H, and a problem solving competition

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  also counts for CI-H? This makes it the best class in the world by itself

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  one that has a HASS-D (distribution requirement) and/or CI-H

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006