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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  on ~200 different mailing lists. This isn't unusual. There are some ... chuckled, didn't tell anybody, and forgot about it for three years ... their mailing list :)  While this blog entry isn't necessarily aimed at

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  looking at colleges couldn't have gleaned from a glossy brochure. That ... years, because I don't. They**** say MIT's like a box of chocolates, or ... wouldn't have come here otherwise. So as you follow me through my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  I don't much care for this nickname, lol...). I have three suitemates ... : Finally at Merck! I can't actually talk about my specific project, but just ... a lot of things I haven't had as much time for during college

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  , then, that he is insanely clever and hardworking, like, oh, I don't know ... telethoning, in hopes that they'll be useful for some of the prefrosh we didn't ... normal campus tour. Most campus preview weekends don't differ drastically

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last ... myself that it didn't look too bad and fully qualified for procrastination ... and Monday. Regardless, I wouldn't have given up this Spring Break for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  Program Registration: If you can't make it for CPW, don't despair, you can ... -- don't forget about the Webcast event on Saturday. Check your email for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  hours in Kendall Square. "Don't you still have that gift certificate for ... over my shoulder to see what I was reading.  "And weren't we going to ... Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  Growing up, the thing that my parents were the most strict about wasn't ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn't ... , Maita, and Steven doing... I don't really know what they were doing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  productive you could be doing. (2) Failure is all too common - you can't be ... notoriously tedious and time-consuming. It relies on Java, which I haven't ... and longer as the semester goes on, and I don't expect to finish

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  heard of an ice storm?!?—we don’t have that kind of thing in the West ... passionate about—sustainable transportation in developing countries. I haven’t ... the field I am most interested in, but didn’t really know what that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  language (because the myriad others didn’t completely satisfy his ideal ... didn't feel like moving, and in passively routing people around the ... of nerditude that we can't help but collide with luminous points of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  shouldn’t have been there. Tomatoes and bell peppers adopted sweetness previously unknown to vegetables. I didn’t try pickles but I heard they didn’t

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... counterproductive. Even though my kids aren't always receptive to my counsel, one of ... to offer guidance, I am sorry to say that I don't always give the best

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I ... with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever ... bellybutton lint that you might have done otherwise. Anyway, don't take my word

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don’t ... aside, I can’t resist noting that both Cambridge, England and Cambridge ... and how MIT helped (or didn’t) get them to their current level of

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  haven’t really tried to articulate this thought in anticipation of my trip ... can’t imagine living in a country composed of predominantly one kind of ... and I can’t wait to see how reality measures up.

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents ... really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait ... rolled around and my parents came to visit, I had a thought. Man, wouldn't

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  Registration: If you can't make it for CPW, don't despair, you can still come ... eagerly awaiting financial aid information... don't despair! Financial Aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -with-Leonardo-DiCaprio-and-that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t ... of you who aren’t familiar with the movie, Romeo &dagger Juliet ... and Capulets, an event we discussed during class as something that wasn’t

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  below 7.0 and we didn't have buffers, we'd die. As you can tell, both ... .03, though it's extremely obvious that I haven't taken a math class in a year ... . Aside from chasing a freaked-out squirrel through a corridor, I haven't

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011