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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  Happy Valentine’s Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven’t been trying to avoid blogging… but the last week of IAP was spent taking…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students…

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  what you've accomplished so far in your life. If everything you did was ... life. In just a few minutes, I have to board my flight - but I hope this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  of your life. This is not a reason to be sad. It is a reason to be glad ... for the rest of your life. Most of you will have spent most of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us ... life so far? This could be your creativity, effective leadership, sense

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  ‘Sup, blogosphere? Nothing personal against this year’s prospective students, but I’ve had quite a few things unfold throughout this month, most of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It’s been a while. I’ve had a busy last month: 0. I said this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that’s sort of like stating, “I…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night before and slid…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  sometimes in life, we have to do things that we may not want to do, but they ... SCIENCE DOCUMENTARIES. Is my life complete? UM YES I THINK IT IS! I cannot

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  the rest of your life collapses in on you and you find yourself

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  (which you can enlarge by clicking on them): For much of my life, the ... way of life, and a novel way to relax. But then again, nothing like

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  I don’t watch much TV anymore and I’m a little behind when it comes to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for facebook and my…

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I’m living in MacGregor, one of the…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here’s the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawai’i County)*. I…

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  [by Jessica Noss ’14] While MITSO, MITWE, and Chamber Chorus all have a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians, my favorite group is Techiya. As…

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured that little piece of hell known as dead week. Yes, dead week. How aptly named. Some people call…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick ’12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York, centered around the Metropolitan…

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  I’ve mentally partitioned my time here into “eras” with defining characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting. Thanks to those of you…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011