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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast ... year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... studying pulsars. PULSARS!!! I can't wait. </NEWSFLASH> Twisted as

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  . Sunburns suck, sand doesn't do it for me, and the heat is just tougher for me ... " trip this weekend because, well, it didn't look like there was going to ... true. I can't imagine an engineering position that would be more

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had ... of Wikipedia golf. I don't know what rules people normally play by ... we used, but I can't.  I recently admitted to myself that

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  case you can't pick up a bland, regular copy at a T station somewhere in ... made: Oh, the wonderful things I would miss on the internet if I didn't ... get the post up, but didn't get around to asking my senior lab manager

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  . And that’s also one thing you can’t change about technology: it won’t ... e-book reader and put off buying it, but it won’t stop the Kindle 3, 4 ... can only keep going, or we wouldn’t be where we are today. IN

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  campus, you don't know anything. (many scholars and religions will argue ... (but don't lick them. That's weird). From extremely hands-on to more ... take, what to major in if you don't know what to major in, how to talk to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... that was totally unexpected. Throughout high school, I hadn't put much ... fraternity members. I slowly shook my head. I couldn't understand the value of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry ... still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn’t ... instead I felt sorrow that the good times and the friends I left behind won’t ... undergraduate career couldn’t have come fast enough. The last two weeks of term

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  willing to forgo this summer so I can get to MIT as soon as possible. I can’t wait to get out of here.” I couldn’t have imagined all the changes that ... them, I didn’t experience too much homesickness because I was so busy and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  ZOMG...CPW BEGINS TOMORROW!! AHHH! Aren't you super excited?!?!? I ... current student hosts. (If your host hasn't been in touch with you, don't ... 'll work it out! And if your host has tried to contact you but you haven't

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  swamp when I noticed that Santa hadn't visited my house and left me a licensed copy of MATLAB. “Santa doesn't exist,” you interject. (By which I mean, I interject on behalf of you since you can't leave a comment on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must say, it's very nice, but when my girlfriend came into my room she inquired "Where's your mousepad?" "Well . . I don't have one. . . but look

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  arthritis: it cripples your dreams and contains the letters a, r, t, h, and two i's*. Or is it three? I can't add, remember? *Cross ... math prerequisite. It wasn't until 6:30 pm that I discovered that I had

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say ... ... for now), etc. Now I don't mean to imply that I do that alone (if you ... brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don't

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  MIT. My summer job doesn't start until June 23rd, though, so I've been ... something I swore up and down I wouldn't do this year: I joined the MIT Class ... seminar. (Holy crap, I'm a senior. When did that happen?! Wasn't I posting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a ... engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn't

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity: "Today, 3/3/09, is square root day, which only occurs nine times each

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get pizza and pastries the other night. I didn't feel like writing about it so I decided to just film it instead. I present to you, what it would

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  Pass/No Record, I don't see any Cs. Well, I can't see any Cs. 9 ... Junior-Senior P/D/F, and they can't satisfy any Institute or departmental ... me broke. Also, falling down multiple flights of stairs probably didn't

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008