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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so ... by joining a student community, most notably greek life, the entire

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... -some days into the future. Pretty cool, huh? Well -- I guess you know ... few things about the future that you might want to know, now that the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those ... learning from their insight could be the difference between life and death ... Boston, right in the Microsoft Nerd Center. Venture capitalists from all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing ... class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or ... our “daily walk” around the track, followed by a vigorous round of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  I've spent the past few days untangling my personal life, which has ... then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about balancing family and American culture; I identify strongly with the main

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest ... step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad ... can save time and money in the grocery store. Know how much food costs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the ... . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Picture this. A pavement somewhere along the infinitely stretching ... partially cut through. It’s 1994, Spring, chilly. The wind is silently whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... readers of the MIT blogosphere and all admitted MIT Quest Scholars, My name

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  As something of an absent blogger over the past few months, one of the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  ! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments ... ) about the... DUN DUN DUN... COLLEGE ESSAY. Before I start, I'd like to offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... hang out some more with the 254 (Burton Conner suites are all numbered

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was used to. I complained about "drinking from the fire hose" since that ... sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It's different than the school year. There are many many many reasons why it ... == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of milk down the drain because it was past the "Sell By" date listed on the side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... as the second-greatest moment in television history. If memory serves me correctly, #1 was the moon landing or something ridiculous like that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... 'll hopefully have the time and energy to do so. Pre-orientation (I did Freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  fifth grade about my future aspirations. Now, you can't argue about the first sentence coming true, and the last one still more or less applies, but the rest has changed, uh, quite a bit since I wrote it. I'd say that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005