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  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car ... tennis court on any of my walks to or from MacGregor. So kudos to having a ... bars is still sitting on my shelf. Why? This place doesn’t let you starve

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... concrete basin. I have been on Dallas all day. My throat is dry and hollow. I ... ; A fountain at the entrance of the Watergate building, my first day at

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  back and then to get my life back together. Will have more stuff for you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  schoolers.   Brb, switching my major to Course 2.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  fireside chat, I asked him what advice he has for MIT students in my position

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  during my time here. After an enthusiastic conversation about jigsaw ... in which my friends from Party Lounge were the only people around ... their day into working on this project, then there was no doubt in my mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or ... like this – maybe I'm finicky and my dreams shift and evolve too often ... . To loosely paraphrase one of my favorite professor's parting words to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  concerns. I’ve mined content from all over the internet, including my ... offensive; that is of course not my intention, and last I checked they were ... or two of these links will be useful. Many of them are to posts on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a few projects, so figured I'd make myself useful and answer some questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  Campus Preview Weekend starts tomorrow, and for pika, my cooperative independent living group, that means: Improv, meditation, DIY sushi, a jam session, and late-night smoothies on Thursday Soapmaking, screen printing

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  changed his life. It changed my weekend, for sure, and bits of it have rattled and echoed in my head ever since. I loved what Young Guru said about ... -Z presents himself as he is." My notes say "Jay-Z brought existentialism to the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I Wrote A Thing media and articles and no punctuation

  

  I wrote a thing It is an article about hospitalizations In particular, the hospitalization of my friend - she is named Emily in the article I also was in a Boston Globe article about stress There is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  while. That is the view from my 4th story room. Serious question, why is ... "icicles" stemming from the gutters. My guess is going to be May 1. 2. Is ... to whoever can identify this blogger :) I swear my friends aren

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  for music. For me at least, I feel as if my passions are what got be ... . I'm pretty good. (Thanks to my friend Chantal for this photo~) - FIlm ... photos ourselves in a darkroom. This is my first print - a shot of the

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  : My newest source of vitality and inspiration Seen from the MIT Sailing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  1866 (January through June), gift wrapped. Here it is opened. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  enjoying some of the best (and most elaborate?) dinner on campus at my ... with the Asian American Assocation floating around to cheer on my ... ; Crêpes on Thursday and dinner on Friday presenting a poster on my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to ... logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... the same office as my MIT sponsor, a Course 2 alumni. I had never been ... . :) The snazzy view from my apartment.  Externships are one of the many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  enough and my symptoms largely went away. Raphael and I were having ... the summit; it would take about half an hour. My nausea and dizziness ... *everyone* here asks us are 1) where we're from and 2) what we think of "my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014