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  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the process of "WHAT???? HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN COME UP WITH THIS???"-->"I KNOW ... that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  weeknight, which ended up being much better for my test than studying for it ... catching up on sleep and singing with the Toons. Which brings me to the third ... up in official "Tooniforms": black shirt, black pants, and colored ties

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  I wasn't sure I was up for dealing with a cape for an entire day of ... over a button-up Oxford shirt tucked in neatly, so I did admittedly feel ... the difficulty of trying to dress up as "human, male version of an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I ... application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  HackMIT. I found out about it back in August and wanted to sign up ever ... tightened up security outside of HackMIT and now they wouldn’t let any MIT ... dressing up a statue in honor of the ending of a TV show. It's the little

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  anticlimactic finale to Day 1 of Eric Lander's legendary 7.012 course: Up next ... lecture hall classes at MIT are broken up into recitation sections. A few ... gets up and talks at us for 1-1.5 hours. On the days we don't have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... show up 2-3 hours before the house opens, and the box office has a ... manager and call the show. Which I may have signed up to do. (Hello again

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  and plan on going this year. It’s freaking awesome.) I woke up at ... with warm fuzzy creative feels, I met up with my friends Jamal E. ’13 and ... /reverse-jenga but with ice cubes. Kinda messy, but it looks easy to set up anywhere

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the ... 's over 300 student groups and organizations set up booths in the Z center ... little time. I ended up putting my name down for more clubs than I could

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom ... we roam MIT and Boston, losing sleep and loading up on free food, free ... noobs like me, every time he sets up the line), and I can now almost make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's just skip to the next point), Even with his whole morning booked up ... gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets ... whatever other gorgeous media extravaganzas the Times has come up with by the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  freshman spring semester I signed up for both a 6.01 and 6.042 tutors and it ... doubled up again and signed up for tutors in both 6.005 and 6.046. Sadly

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  …" Those percents add up - not just in the homework component of your grade ... limit these instances. (Try to) wake up at the same time every day ... waking up at 9am and 11am depending on whether it's Monday or Thursday, etc

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  of the day sitting in front of our computers, but spice things up with ... tried to hug Carl Sagan, but ended up awkwardly covering his mouth ... , hike up to a summit, camp overnight, drive to Harrisonburg and eat

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a ... Boston and almost ended up at the airport, but we found our way back home ... , where students were challenged to run up the 19-story Green Building as

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... up and up again. Now what? After what I went through, I think a lot

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I ... Regular Action pool. Q: Why hasn’t my Questbridge application shown up on

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... doodling kind of stopped last semester, so I decided to dig up some notes ... these goobers were up to last night? Well, I guess you'll just have to

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

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  hundredth) Photoshop, SketchUp or Sculptris project. More specifically, I get ... makes up a huge portion of the site. As Ann Hutchinson Guest put it when ... behind the scenes to make up the Village. Designing the interface is one

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Roy pulled up the app I made*, went to some detergent brand’s page, and ... lot of pset groups like to meet up in East Campus, because when it ... change up your living situation, even if you just do it for a summer, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012