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  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say ... 't worry! Me: ...great! TSA Agent: In some ways. Me: Great! Well, here are my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... . Many of my friends were considering minoring, or even double majoring ... broke down a couple times and ended up talking with my parents on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always ... programming on the side. This is the story of my older brother. You see

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers!). As it turns out, my office isn't very far away from where I live. Being able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; and confusingly just as much juggling. But one of my favorite parts of ... all my sensibilities, split my chin open during a match. Against my own ... on my clothes. Oops, so I ran off to find just where I'd sprung a leak

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  BEHOLD! I MADE FOOD! GOOD FOOD! Remember when I set my IAP ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... this IAP and last IAP was my ruthlessness in adapting recipes. Some were

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... signed my name on so many mailing lists that I honestly forgot what I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  earlier this month. My family, while not tremendous travellers, has managed to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two ... was back in my hometown in NH, playing a knock-down-drag-out game of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  Yup, it's true: CPW 2010 IS ALMOST HERE!!! My poor inbox is struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  enthusiastic about my classes this semester than I was about my classes last ... found biology slightly more relevant to my existence than, say, gyroscopes ... .00 here at MIT, so maybe it'll eclipse my high school psych experience. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the ... my head. As I was walking around today I thought about why I enjoy ... by Building 66 (where I spent much of my undergraduate life). I like

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and ... 's my (perhaps 'geekier') peers at MIT.... I don't come from an academic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for ... me, and I really don't think that sending an addendum to my application ... that the paper was well outside my normal field of study. So while I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to ... a JPG image with my picture, stuck it on my blog page while it was still in its embryonic stages, shuttled off my finished webpage into the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24 ... .” *An aside: My classmates in senior year voted me most likely to lead a ... .02, but this conflicted with my chemistry lecture. As I mentioned before my

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  Since I discovered that under my new schedule, I practically have NO ... . Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July ... (volunteers). My primary function was with registration (weight, blood pressure

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008