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  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and ... two classes, 18.S097 Introduction to Mathematical Proofs and 20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs, one in Biology and one in CMS. It takes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This is mostly because I've given away far too many company shirts to ... tried to approach the career fair with hesitant optimism and figuring out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  research mentor to see if he was smiling or frowning. He was usually smiling ... fellowships (AHHHHHH!!!!!!), and said goodbye to the NRAO, and the building in which I decided to become an astronomer insteaad of a neurologist. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to campus six years ago I took every opportunity to talk with current students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday ... original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was ... semester. So based on suggestions from some of you, I'm going to host an ... or however long it takes to do as many repetitions of "A Whole New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication ... results, findings, and analysis. Not to mention I'm staying gainfully

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  immediately sent to NYC to conduct some school visits. I was so nervous riding the subway for the first time, but getting to meet the students at the ... MIT receives; it’s not uncommon to have folks from Russia, India, China

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... choice 10 more excursions to cheap and delicious Korean places than I'd like to admit BonChon soy & garlic wings (left) and Goon Mandoo

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  run-up to the S&L crisis. Here's what Lewis had to say about the path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still settling down, we wanted to give you all an update as soon as possible ... ). Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able to admit anyone off the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... process started going a lot smoother. We got a chance to chat with students

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012