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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  were making up words to sound cute. But apparently blustery means ... time at the house, I've gotten the chance to catch up with my fraternity brothers on how they're doing and what they're up to. That got me thinking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  - Claire L. '17 - when she brought up that there were ceramics classes offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the ... Joan - ALL THE MUGS! IT IS SO EXCITING! We signed up for the class right

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with ... UpBeat, a modular attachment for a drumset that will help users become ... up with Koach, a punching bag that provides feedback about a boxer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... to clear my head and wake up enough ready to tackle the day. It ... habit of waking up five minutes before class starts and frantically

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  weekend for van rentals so sign up early and reserve a space! Sam I ... . Because college. So Rachel and I decided to sign up for the trip together ... other homework and trying to get this up before midnight, which prevented

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  and fling them.  I'm the one filming. 2)  Solar panels went up on the ... admissions season coming up, I've started to realize that I've hit that ... around a bunch and never got around to signing up until recently. That

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  pay hundreds of dollars to pick up. So I went to the society fair, signed up for a dozen more mailing lists than I should have and tried my ... extended gaming sessions. Setting up an in-house League game. A wall of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  acceptable use of IAP! I turned my cell phone off, set up an auto-response on ... first went south, then to the coast, then up the coast, then back to Quito ... malaria pills, and woke up to the sound of a cacophony of howler monkeys. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook ... -summit lunches are the best. ^ view from the trail up Osceola ^ it was his

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  means: Well, the week is up. I'll definitely start tomorrow. On Jan 31 ... that 2014 should open up with some sort of bang—performers at Times ... ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  the injection molding machine. This machine heats up plastic pellets and ... machine. This machine heats up sheets of plastics and then places them over ... the yo-yos! (We had to make 50) To wrap up the class, we gave a short

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  realize that the news was playing on the radio. We pulled up a news site on ... . An image of walking through the Pentagon smiling up at my dad as we ... able to reach him either." We hung up so she could keep trying. That was

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  enjoyable. Eventually the quarter ended and I was swept up into the world of ... , variety.   Everyone should attempt to wake up super early and sign up

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  ) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium for a good half hour. For what purpose was this? ^We lined up with ... was/is hard to contain.The hard work and ups and downs of a year and a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  , 40% hand gestures), which Anji and I ended up enjoying thoroughly. Leng ... companies like Bloomberg and Intuit were up to.. and we made a brief ... Charles Hsu, an MIT junior who decided to pick up designing and building his

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning ... woke up early* this morning and trudged bleary-eyed over to room 26 ... synced to the note.  I'll keep you updated on how it goes, unless I end up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  . Unfortunately, I've picked up a new hobby that makes that second rule a little ... .  You look up, recognize the malfunction, and then have to react ... 't even hesitate if I look up and see a big ball of snot flapping around

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty ... that I got up and didn't say anything at all. Elsewhere in the spacetime ... the talk. I walked up to the grad student after he finished, to find out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  ;t yet shown up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots ... email to inquire about missing documents. The MyMIT tracking is up ... do is tell you that MyMIT is up-to-date and to be patient as we process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  structure. We grew up knowing that 3rd grade came after 2nd, middle school ... scary is that? As much as our high-school selves may put "college" high up ... cooking up crazy ideas like credit-default swaps (the insurance policy much

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011