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• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe ... grocery store, in July. As for running, I don’t have many pictures of that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates are there yet the bottom bunks have all already been claimed. so of

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out ... following would have been a wonderous experience for both of us. It really is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... diversity." I have huge feet, as you know. One of my favorite childhood ... applying for MIT, and then discussed some aspects/adjectives of this match

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  unsuspecting town. Not only are the residents of the town incredibly quirky and chock full of personality, there's also certain secrets and hidden gems ... week, I finished Season 2 of Gravity Falls. Right before my senior year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... optical infrared telescope part of the SPECULOOS (Search for habitable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  I’ve been thinking about different modes of transport through cities ... . Each of those three have their own method of transport: Copenhagen bikes ... exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started ... was no satisfaction of selling out a successful show, or of buying ... liked having creative direction over choreography, but the thought of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... discovered K-Pop in 4th grade (it was actually because of a Ke$ha phase

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... Craiglist. None of that matters. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010