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  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  up before 5 a.m.; I therefore try to fall asleep before 9 p.m.; I don ... these days. Yes, it’s even worth the early wake-up time. This experience ... my new job I started getting cold feet in terms of bringing up my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  ’re really not kidding. I found myself waking up on May 19 with no plans for ... flowing academic robe to keep track of. Imagine my nerves as I went up to ... on earth is the hooding ceremony,” I hope I’ve cleared up some things

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  following up on these surveys and compile the responses Create databases ... campaign is up and running Investigate the progress of other "Think Local ... geography lesson... The state of Hawaii is made up of four major Islands: Oahu

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The ... off campus, but I ultimately ended up returning as I hung out with ... of students staying over the summer are housed. I put off clearing up

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is ... 's been up to while writing this musical. I almost wish I hadn't. "Well, I ... -playing robots would take up any time at all. It takes a special sort of person to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee ... think up something wonderful. And it seemed to me that this sentiment was ... leave the LGBT organizing solely up to students alone, MIT has a great

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  , and convince you to join up should you join us here at the 'tvte. There ... abstracting biological nanospheres (which I'm almost sure I just made up) is ... wind up with the concentrated and caffeinated variety show that is CPW

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  absolutely jam-packed with events. Definitely hit up the major events (ex ... dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking ... events early so that you don't end up with 7 XXL shirts like I did and so

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  and students stood up in front of us weary workday parents, who were ... is that I can get up from my desk to stretch and travel down the infinite corridor in search of a diet Dr Pepper, and on my way I can look up

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of ... intimidated by coding, I’m also genuinely excited for what I come up with ... life; I mean, my shopper IQ went up by like 50 points after the first

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  . Still, serving up two entrees with leftovers each week is mighty ... . Dinner: delicious. Now, I could wrap up this uncharacteristically short ... eating uncooked cornmeal if I don’t get some French toast up on this plate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... graduation rate of 27.6%. The teacher I’m paired up with teaches math, and her

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  things than work, silly. (2) This is why you should back things up. Don ... summer that I had foolishly neglected to back up. (Ah, I’ll just get around ... in the fact that I had backed up everything, especially my precious

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of ... launching cup to ensure all of the pieces were of equal length. I looked up to ... to something like that. I ended up using concepts from the fluid

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  balled up a white t-shirt covered in even more Twister polka-dots and tossed it down to me. Tugging it on over my top, I grinned, bounded up the ... how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  .) On top of that, moving to a big city for college ended up giving me the ... school. It's not as if suddenly I woke up one day wanting to be an engineer ... skills at the MIT Daycare, practicing for my future career in stand-up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... , cranking up every dial. I put on my headphones, ready to unleash percussive ... drumming a nuisance... So why am I bringing this back up? Because my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  - she will be living up high in French House come fall. Anna, who ... . David plugged in his axe, amp, and mic, cranking up every dial. I put on ... , and set up into the system in early September. When that time comes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  got around to it. Every time I made time to go something came up ... saw Alina when she came to pick up students for tours after sessions ... wonder, oh well, I may have screwed that one up. Most importantly you put

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  for the frisbee at a full sprint. I came up with the game-winning catch ... slept like a baby with my head propped straight up in a brace. If it wasn ... wish I had been at this town meeting, because apparently someone stood up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010