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  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  going to sleep after them and waking up before them to get all my work ... actual house, instead of a dorm room. I ALSO LOVE GETTING UP EARLY (never ... . It's been eating up a lot of my time, so it's a good thing I like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  I can't believe I've been blogging as an admissions officer at MIT for 9 years.  Over that time, I've periodically opened up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  . I always woke up groggy and felt nauseous on particularly stressful ... trying a friend's gummy vitamins ended up drastically changing my day to ... mornings and more more energy in the day. So pick up a supply of vitamins

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  sound. and tambourines, of course. Next up was Macklemore and Ryan

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  ***EDIT, 12/31/12 1:49PM: Of course, no sooner than I post this, it looks like the site is back up again! Thanks again for your patience - feel free to post comments here if you encounter further issues

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  's homemade.   I'm taking things lightly. Finals are coming up, tension is rising, the semester's winding up. I'm trying to wind down (not that I wound up sufficiently in the first place). I've implemented two new

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  to gracefully flail on the ice rink, while dressed up as your favorite ... dressed up as Iron Man.   Weekend 7 If this weekend were a soup ... , dress up entirely in pink for the Gangnam Style flash mob in Killian Court

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  ) or sweet (if you load up on fruits and sugary spreads). So far ... . According to one of my friends, Sebastians also dresses up certain employees ... walked up to the counter and asked for a banana and Nutella crepe, and one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... correction is too big, you end up TOO sensitive to darks, and not sensitive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... up with the team’s progress (since I came back from England after the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  minutes of glory. After time was up he surprised us all with signed

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  up quite readily from those around us. And now, while it is more ... had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few ... would be more efficient. Which brings up the question: what actually

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... slowly that I had to really simplify the rig, which ended up consisting of ... , some MITERS showed up with tiny go-karts, because why not. Not long

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  up, their high school, and the people they met there influenced them ... important. They could stay up and get things accomplished when they needed to ... things but also I got to watch them grow up in many ways that they have yet

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . And, as I am gearing up to head to St. Louis for the FIRST World ... good stuff that allows teams to succeed and sets young people up for ... everything up, and they learned to focus, ultimately building a robot that did

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  apparently was okay, because we ended up in a congo line, dancing to Vietnamese ... field, towards another bonfire that was being set-up. Another bonfire ... left and to our right. We then broke up into groups of three to play

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a whim, not knowing what to expect. We ended up throwing together a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011