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  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a ... —was up and about. Suddenly, he burst into the kitchen excitedly, saying ... up a thick clump of snow and flung them at Kevin, but they scattered

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  in the morning, up a hill, past a castle, into a forest. Then I take ... followed up on a friend's suggestion to read American Gods, finally ... about the skills that I use as a scientist, and how lucky I was to wind up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  up through floor vents inside of those cordoned-off areas, and chills the racks. Hot air exits the other side, and rises up into the AC intake ... guidance. In the decades hence, he's built up a huge collection of stories

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  up for. McCormick, Simmons, Baker, and Next houses all require that their freshmen sign up for at least a “Basic 14” meal plan, which includes ... meal plan or not. However, regardless of the price, I signed up for the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... mode - did a little work, chilled out a lot, ended up on the Dean's List ... took up the hobby of exploring the ocean. I spent a weekend with hippies

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  washing machine up stairs? why doesn't my apartment have a pot rack?), her ... preserved here in overwhelming clarity. A warm fuzzy feeling wells up in my ... triumphing over evil at the end. I grew up in part reading this particular

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... . Finishing up undergrad was the end of an era, and I knew I needed a break ... work are looking a little daunting! I have a few more adventures up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  . There were 13 display screens set up in Lobby 10, one for each of our ... either confirms you were right or clears up what you got wrong. I guess I ... , that's mostly what I've been up to this summer--odd jobs on top of one of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  will be lost when you are old. We shed as we pick up, like travelers who ... up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short ... can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  , November 22nd Waking up on Fridays involves quite a few glassy-eyed stares ... to wake up two and a half hours earlier than usual without collapsing ... up and it’s nice to know that there’s an entire group of people out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  visible. Up ahead, he sees the lights from a gleaming building. Maybe a few ... wealth of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come ... action and build-ups of pressurized gas? Maybe they would have kids, little

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you ... get up nice and early but I will have misplaced my MIT ID and not only ... , MIT kids are human beings. Go ahead and open one up – we have the same

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  ? Eternal freedom. No homework. Staying up past midnight every night. The ... this unusual freedom were rife with extravagant eating, curling up in ... of the Institute keeping my morale up. As my gap year drew closer to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... department, and the two sections share the same material up until past the ... how these choices of mine hold up over the semester.

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  . Sophomore year was indeed better. Architecture courses started, picked up some ... of, that you can stand by and own up to. 2. Follow up -- it’s not that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.” The only condition ... his father's college workshop.  To be able to make whatever I dreamed up ... : break students up into groups of around five, teach them how to use

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech ... , the complete text of Atlas Shrugged, which ended up winning the hunt ... ’t end up solving), Czar Cycle: None of us know Greek, one of us knows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  restriction enzyme will allow you to cut up DNA and paste different combinations ... of size and charge. By firing up a current that courses through an ion ... , it helps you finish up a 9.12 lab. Otherwise, you can use the lengths

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  dressed up super pretty for the final awards ceremony!  It was so much fun ... finally showed up, and I actually got admitted to my dream school!!  I WAS ... to MIT.  She said okay, and then I crawled up the stairs and passed out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  flowing endorphins, catching up to me like a tidal wave I had sought to ... looked back and asked what made me give that all up. But all I know - or ... at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012