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  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  , the best teacher I've had in my entire life aside from my dad*. I loved ... prescriptions. "Tell me your problems and your life, and I'll give you a poem to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  It’s summertime @ MIT! I’m relaxing at home after graduating last week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a few of my friends are…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  Last month, tragedy hit MIT. That week was chaotic and emotional. Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent way more time in my…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  live with current students and their life at MIT is somewhat different ... & Sessions About Residential Life and Dining. Our on ... will be a discussion covering life in residences, residential support

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  This blog post is by my brilliant Randomite, computer scientist, and cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently joined the rest of the MIT…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and basically a crash course…

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... , friends, and relative fortune I've run into this far in life, I'm also

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  -satisfaction overcame every barrier to living that sort of life, including the initial

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 Facebook group: I know I’ve been *admitted* to MIT, but I don’t know if I…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  process take over your life. Remember to spend time with your friends (or

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  Hello! I don’t think we’ve met. I’m the girl who rollerblades everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right time of day. My…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had “tryouts”: we took a shot at playing every instrument…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  MIT life). Like CTY, I made friends here who I'm close to even now - and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  your first experience test-driving real life. I say test-driving because ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... your own, living the life might sound, in reality, you are there to work

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  Maybe I should preface this by saying “do as I say, not as I do”. I guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes.…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don’t have p-sets and rarely have tests. Sweet, right? No homework sounds great! Aha! But I didn’t say there…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, by MIT's own Junot Diaz. 8. Write a letter (and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  is much, much bigger than me and my little life. I left my own marks ... quotes I've read in my life. I saw pictures and artifacts and stories of individuals I've never met in my life but wish I could right now - just to tell

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia ’10 drove Kathy ’10 and I to Cape Cod, where we spent a blissful afternoon walking around Provincetown. After a refreshing nap on the beach and…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  'm not sure if I want the real-life version of this circuit inside anything

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009