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• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  idea of at least what direction you're going, but, if you have one, don't ... with your situation-- if you're not, change it! Don't just go through the ... traditions and memories, have fun, grow with your friends. Don't judge people

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say ... enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what's right around the corner. TSA Agent: Ah, well. Life gets better, don't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  through one’s undergraduate years and beyond. Some people don’t sleep ... : don’t bother scheduling every minute of every day. By all means, yes ... and a highlighter. Make plans – but don’t force yourself to follow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  picket fence because white picket fences are ugly. (okay, maybe I didn't ... . But that doesn't mean I've given up on bio.  I'm interested in ... was my masterpiece: But toy design isn't all fun and games.  Or is it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  playing video games and complaining with my friends as to why we couldn’t ... Arizona doesn’t have those things, it just takes a lot longer to get there ... me? I’m a little weird (don’t ask me to describe why, it’s very hard

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  ’s Gotterdammerung (!!!) and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Because many of us hadn’t studied Wagner’s works, we didn’t really know what to expect. Luckily, one ... deception ensue, and it all culminates in . . . Well, I won’t reveal the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  : taking all of their GIRs second semester senior year because they didn't ... before graduation, or belatedly discovering that one humanities class didn't ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to wear. That has since been replaced by an assortment of sweatshirts, t ... something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  Do you ever feel like you can't do just one thing at a time? These days, I can't watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can't ... "social media fatigue" are becoming legitimate concerns. I wasn't fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... life is? You can’t prioritize to determine whether you should answer it ... rhetorical question-response would be: “Isn’t that like asking how I would save

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  am currently at Logan Airport, wishing my flight weren't delayed. The ... didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  (apparently we really like Legos—who doesn't?!). The catch was that each team didn’t have enough Legos to make satellites on its own. Some teams had a ... teams that hadn’t yet made a satellite scrambled to get the pieces they

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... dishwasher. I can’t find my dishes. I run around Random Hall sequestering ... about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v.t

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  successful student athlete at MIT requires. Personally, I wouldn't trade my ... commitment wasn't worth it. So it's a personal choice. Let's take a look at the ... the gym when I don't want to and the 'freshman 15' was just an abstract

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  ideas, maybe they didn't. But the readjustment lottery tries really hard ... to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can't ... included). But none of those things matter if you don't like the people you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  : Why do you or don’t you feel a personal obligation to 'buy local ... with spam as Boston has beef (which if you haven’t been before, there is lots of burgers around). I haven’t tried any yet but I’ll be sure to get

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  : In no particular order: Don't worry. We have your mail. We've been ... documents haven't shown up on the application tracker. Here's why: we ... not evaluate your application until we have everything we need. So don't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the ... Lounge), these cards aren't hard to find. Abigail Francis, MIT's Director ... , people simply don't focus on sexuality," she said, "We'll have

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the ... assured me that if I went on her tour, she wouldn't "rat me out." So ... already knew, but it certainly didn't hurt to be reminded about some of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  from rollerblading (which is what I'm most comfortable with) and don't ... that had inexpensive helmets, some ebay brand goggles (I still can't find ... isn't just in the gear, it's also in the travel/lift tickets. I've been

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010