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• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves ... personally can't stand Guy Fieri), so they (read: Dad) begged to have lunch at ... . Also, now I am really hungry.) I call this photo, Little boy retires to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  -setting even through they're on Pass/No-Record, and I think to myself, "hahahaha ... anymore," which leads to internal sobbing and then I'm jolted back to ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... me introduce to you our new bloggers! Class of 2015:  ... station that allows you to select "play", "pause", or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... visual feats. Not to mention their inventions can be applied to medicine

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished ... has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself ... at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... quite pleased with my culinary accomplishments last IAP, so I’m excited to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it ... courses in your major) – and more pressure to be uh, mature and serious

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  " button to blogs so that they could be easily shared via Facebook. As I said ... bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a ... over the last week. I have so much to say and so much to remember, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to ... ways I am able to support my spending habit. I have a theory that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... Ruckus has given way to Billabong. Like a scruffy college graduate who has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school ... stopped going to school after 8th grade, though she was an awesome speller

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the humanities, listening to lectures about the humanities, going to recitations

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend to all take the same core curriculum as freshmen. This not only ... too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets ... have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to chronicle this week's adventures and realized that I was about to write a blog

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... an e-mail informing me that there was to be another flash mob, this

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... was so weak and feverish that I dragged myself over to MIT Medical to ... knowing MIT Medical is there. My friends were sweet enough to bring me extra

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008