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  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It’s been a while. I’ve had a busy last month: 0. I said this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that’s sort of like stating, “I…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  I’ll be honest with you––actually, brief aside here, have you ever heard someone tell you that they won’t be honest with you? It makes me laugh to think about someone…

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

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  Summer’s sunlit streams of serendipitous socializing (or solitude) are sadly shriveling.   My english teacher would be proud of that alliteration.   But I digress, after all I’m not here…

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

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

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I’ve always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by ‘always’ I mean ‘since I became…

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

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

  

  and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be

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

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

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was years ago I received my temporary housing…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I rented my…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I gave up. Which means you…

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life. As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7.05 (biochemistry) final.…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own little bubble. There were many times I remained oblivious to what was going on in the…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  ) light bulb; 12 to play with the iPad (sigh), a few hundred for the fanfare

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York, centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while — I’ve been hosed with the deluge of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  Ahh CPW. The time when underclassmen, upperclassmen, and prospective members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of all the things that make MIT great. Parties, food,…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I’ve been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  Public class Spring2011 Public static void main (String [] args) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the bloggers reminding us about…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I’ve made to lead me there, I noticed a strange…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  IAP has finally started, so that means my grocery bill is much larger than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself for every night in January.…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , '12, is a Course 1 major from Colorado who lives offcampus in an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  Ann Curry is my idol. This NBC reporter is somehow able to balance an aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting on the economy or having fun on…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010