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  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd, complex language. I was simply exhausted. Just because it's MIT doesn't mean ... . xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  victories isn't something that just applies to MIT, but to life in general ... "homework" isn't like high school homework. I always feel like I'm never ... whatever is bothering me at the moment likely won't be my biggest problem in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don't ... for the entire lecture and he has cookies at office hours. If that doesn't ... planning on doodling through the next 1.5 hours! (Thank goodness he didn't

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... of the past while imagining the future. A neuron! Isn't it cute?  You ... head of the philosophy department. We haven’t had our first class yet, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  pushing forward. You don't want to ever feel like you're falling behind. And really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... find out they don't like a field or said field is not faring so well

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  they were about the Institvte. That's still true for me, although I wasn't ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... Institvte. It's been a long three days. I don't really care how space

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  that with the fact that I didn't adhere to the end times of my study ... off paintballs at 260 feet per second. Since I don't like making things ... shirt underneath. Dang.Since I haven't outed myself as a paintball

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  I haven't been as buried as my fellow premed Chris S., '11, who ... close range. Even if you can take a guess on who they are, you haven't ... originally: Matt McGann already told you who the actor was. But I didn't see

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn't ... events early so that you don't end up with 7 XXL shirts like I did and so that upperclassmen masquerading as prefrosh don't swipe the free stuff

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

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  this entry unbiased, I won’t reveal which side I’ve chosen – or rather ... hamentaschen remained unaltered, while the latke… well… it didn’t hold up so well ... derivative of the hamentaschen, you can’t take the derivative of the latke

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this ... /trailers without electricity and running water." In case you don't know, this is a ... ; at night, the temperature here drops to below zero (Fahrenheit!). I don’t

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

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... : (This is also proof that my handwriting isn’t always neat. These are also ... ! ...But it's totally not. Don't worry, Kate's got it covered (she went, too

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  chili, borscht, sopapillas, enchiladas, rolos, and decided that I don't ... , for the first time, wasn't too embarrassed to be the vocalist. I broke ... that having a broken foot doesn't mean you have to lie in bed all day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  electricity and magnetism, but it didn’t use vector calculus, and my physics ... (why don’t chemists use percent like everyone else? That’s 14.3% of my ... Linguistics, this test doesn’t deserve the label “quiz,” because it’s a full

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  , graduated this past year! So she won't be blogging anymore :( The semester is ... official MIT Arts Portal! (coming soon...) F.A.S.T.: To celebrate MIT's 150th ... approximately 150 days. This Festival of Arts, Science, and Technology [F.A.S.T

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  pitches. So far as I can tell, people weren’t really forming words, just stopping to draw breath. It certainly didn’t sound like anything; I just ... few of the people there had never learned binary, and didn’t know what

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn”t ... strange doohickeys my parents bought me that I never used, clothes I wouldn”t

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  disparity is my own doing – I didn't have a job during the year (although few Cambridge undergraduates do) and I didn't note when I watched 24 this year ... many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  secret that I don't like "Like." And that's because I think that it is ... publicly on your profile. And that probably isn't what most users wanted ... suited our purposes, wasn't creepy, and worked just fine. However, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING ... Authorized Repair person. I don't think I've been physically separated from my ... in Athena clusters involve using OpenOffice Word Processor (we don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010