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• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one ... woke up the next morning at 7am, for an interview with a really awesome

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... comes up in conversation or something. While some might say that I spent ... leading up to my second grade move to California played no small role in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not ... meeting (as my advisor, he helps me to come up with an appropriate schedule ... inflationary theory from the man who came up with it. Sometimes, one hears about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from ... up the answer and then emailed the interviewee back, so don't be afraid ... avidly played since childhood, and her eyes immediately lit up. She started

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and *actually* woke up at 9:30, this time to the aroma of cinnamon rolls. One of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  , about once every other month. The people surrounding me have brought up ... pharmacy and picked up vitamins.  I really wanted the chewables but the ... starting to like looking up new healthy recipes and discovering new healthy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  the window. Sleep ends up separate from everything else, which I ... the morning. Every night feels like camping, and I usually wake up ... almost always and an obnoxious Clocky alarm clock for actually waking up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  to that crazy Institvte up north. (I still remember writing this blog ... even leaving for FLP (haha) but not actually staying there until right up ... out how to navigate the Institute, the year when we teamed up to make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and ... not making this up. Glowing orange. There was no doubt that they were ... 'll have to excuse me; sometimes I mix up bloggers with migrating birds

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14 ... arms catches up to her and the wind takes over, blowing the boat back 90

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world ... to be up there, on THAT VERY STAGE, doing standup with a hand puppet ... Obama speak) and I ended up getting there at around 9:30, and already the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  you.) Last Saturday, I woke up in a not-very-exciting fashion, so I ... .) (Shrimp dumplings in a translucent rice-flour skin, backed up by peripheral ... bring up a steady parade of rolling carts, and the total charge per person

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  changed, it's actually possible, so it's up to all of the other students to ... -mail at MIT lit up that day and it was hard to walk outside without hearing ... have come up with several solutions to the constant female-only e

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  alarm for 11:20 AM* 11:58 AM: *wakes up, peers at clock* *falls back ... even up to $30 to purchase supplies for Splash) to do whatever, and quite ... Prep teachers, and I quickly signed up to be a teacher. Throughout the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  . Gerberding was also apparently involved with setting up the Novartis-MIT Center ... places like MIT) ends up becoming clinical practice. We need to use our ... that I was so caught up with thinking about his gravitas that my mind

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  literally look up the last word in the dictionary, but decided that "zymurgy ... the class knew who Bob Langer was. Half the hands in the room shot up ... licensing and start-up companies." I was going to say, "Yeah, I know 5 people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  interesting memories...(I should go dig up my VPython model of a miniature ... ended up turning it down and staying to do lifeguarding training. Needless ... up hating the summer. They returned to school without any rest (the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  , my parents are here this weekend, and we've started packing up my room ... ended up going across the river for terrible greasy pizza at 1 AM. I saw ... took it back to her room, which was 222A at the time, and hung it up in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  "study," which we really spend shopping and catching up on sleep, which are ... totally cracked me up. I really thought this was hilarious. Rick was also ... if I wanted to get dressed up or not, and finally gave in to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  campus. I said yes. I ended up pulling an all-nighter the night before a ... ... I also skipped class because physics was at 10 AM, and I stayed up ... during term). I ended up with a B+ in my HASS (9.00, intro to psychology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006