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• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  less surprising that I ended up at MIT. I mean, if you replace all ... , and get messy while trying to learn what’s up with GEL, (bio

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  work for everyone, up and running by CPW) But I digress. As I am sure ... think it over, because you can complete or update your CPW registration up

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  ’m not this person all the time: So I mess up. I fall asleep. I get ... guiding you up and ahead—beyond what you may have thought was possible. I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  up doing with my life. 18.03: Differential Equations I no ... term. The exams are open note. I’m terrified. I also picked up two new

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  Boston to New York, New York to Dubai (where I met up with my mom), and ... . Half the time, I gave up and broke into giggles, amused by how ridiculous

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  messing up a prototype more times than I expected, and that engineering is ... together so I could culture myself in the world of eateries. We ended up

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  competitions by teaming up with hallmates Stephan '13 and Mark '13. Last year ... before that, a group of our then-freshmen ('13) teamed up for 6.270 and won

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  run out. Cheering you up when you're upset. And of course, LAUNDRY ... try to make. Well... what better time to do so than IAP! I gathered up

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

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (and then scale it up to other technical universities). Companies would ... the idea with everybody you can. Solicit feedback. You could end up with

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  that but sometimes i need to remind her that failing just made me get up ... characteristics with the entire admissions committee. And no matter where you end up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  rounds, my team ended up in third, but after our quick debrief, they ... what they were willing to give up—and which teams they thought they could

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural ... can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  really choked up at CPW when I met some students I'd worked with at MITES. A big tear welled up in his eye, and he said: "you know, that's what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  case you can't pick up a bland, regular copy at a T station somewhere in ... get the post up, but didn't get around to asking my senior lab manager

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History ... expansion will continue to speed up the Universe will end in ice. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  living up to another’s expectations. No matter the means of inspiration ... , slowly count to ten, and open up your mind as wide as you can. You are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  hate them because you have to put up with them until they become useful ... , we make up a diverse class which makes for an amazing culture of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it ... vibrate. As we turned up the volume, the molecules in the glass vibrated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  do it the right way, and to this day, every morning I wake up and look ... gather up hundreds of low-income, high-achieving students from all over the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011