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• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... , one of the speakers during my Orientation challenged my classmates and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  served in the dining hall two weeks ago. (But hey, that's what my buddy ... the day in my friend's fluorescent green running shorts and carrying all my prized posessions in LaVerde's bags.) * Smoothies. Smoothies are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  not know, dances are not my scene. One of the stereotypes at MIT is that ... up, step out of my comfort zone, go, and god forbid maybe have a good ... assault on my eyes. Red shirt, purple tie, black pants, blue jacket, and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  colds" or "the last time I was sick was 1918" or "MY leg would never fall off because my immune system is better than yours." Can you see where ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I arrived on Saturday from Florida, where I was spending time with my family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  . Throughout my entire high school career, I always considered myself a pretty average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs and extracurricular activities, I got involved within my school and my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  Hi, I'm Karen and like most other freshmen, I'm still working on my ... anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... used to my parenthetical digressions if you're going to be reading this

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was ... something to do with my flight scheduling. Anyway, as I see it, I've got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. By a machine, I mean my television. Oh, the movies I've missed since I ... decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  admissions process from the general masters program). Next, I emailed my friend ... department pay for my dorm room.) This is actually the first year the biology ... noticed that the title of my last entry was from a song played in The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  my ears warm, I brought it along. It proved popular, promoting similar hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week. I triple-proofread my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005