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  I Remember…

  

  downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... , especially to people like me who grew up in rural America. We all met in person at CPW, and many of us ended up staying in touch throughout our time at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Star Trek TV series. He grew up in the Boston area, where (in his words ... then walked over with Lucas ’14, Jacob ’17, and Abby 17. We picked up our ... and chatting, and waiters rushed up and down the aisles. During the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  , during my first semester, I ended up not using any of the them. The Subway ... exercise in the morning. This means *gulp* waking up earlier. I've had such a problem with this last semester. I stayed up so late so many nights doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  clambered up rickety ladders wedged between branches, scaled tree trunks, and ... remember is how to lace up my skates and how to fall. I’m probably an expert ... students can dress up, eat cookies and candy, and skate to their hearts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I always thought I’d end up going to a UC; in fact, up until my sophomore ... , pizza, ice cream, fresh fruits, etc.) and recently even had a meet-up in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  up nicely when he posted on Facebook today that "the differential in ... up at 8:30, sat in bed cooing at pictures of adorable baby zoo animals ... up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors ... given time, in spite of some deadline coming up, I don't fight the feeling ... knuckle down and when to kick your feet up is a big help. Most importantly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1 ... morning, I woke up stiff and sore, and felt accomplished. Someone on the ... tried to put any of that in my mouth. The evening made up for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2 ... evacuation team had to come up with the safest means of transporting the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  up in the most succinct and accurate way possible – Warning: May ... when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The ... groups and one of my favorite bands of all time. I ended up seeing them

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... practice - until it was the night before a big test, when I shored myself up ... declaring a major. Also, they're MIT exams, which scales up the difficulty

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... when you just need to pick up a carton of milk or orange juice and don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... trumpet (take a look in the mirror while blowing up a balloon, and you'll see what I mean). Nine years later (NINE YEARS? I'M SO OLD) I signed up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... up for coffee. In the true spirit of SF, our less ... : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  . Locals may end up using the term even if the storm does not exhibit a ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I ... mess up, as far as preparation goes. Packing warm clothes, remembering to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this ... are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... professor, not to be a researcher. No – I want to be able to wake up everyday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should ... coming up, my friends and I tried to plan something fun and off campus ... -retreat. Saturday night we went to Shaw's and bought food for our picnic. We ended up

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  ) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose ... -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... , where x is the number of people signed up for the trip and y is the legal ... figure of speech, by the way; I ended up with some excellent macros of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  advance left, one without proper punctuation, because someone up there ... more infuriating than that, only took me up the block. To get an idea of ... to the right," and turned to the right. I ended up right where the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009