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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  sprint by Raphael, we managed to catch a cab back to the hostel. R ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to ... and that I have the power to be a part of that change sounds simple

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  'getting things done' to this extent takes a great deal of complacency. half ... , i've decided to get my head out of my ass and give it a chance, and i ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... documents to the financial aid office by February 15. I haven't forgotten ... hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... Leadership Training Institute (a semester-long weekend program aiming to teach ... with it and used it to make a lot of silly games and procedurally

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a ... Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  've never found that a convincing reason to get more exercise, because I keep ... Monologues, a yearly production run by campus group The F-Word. It's a series ... about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... doing 18.03 (diff eq) together; a smaller group gathers to do 8

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  to illustrate our culture is by what we do, so here's a glimpse of just ... meeting to decide shirt names, and it’s a lot of fun since you get to learn ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  "Sunshowers" by M.I.A. "I bongo with my lingo and I beat it like a wing, yo" 3 ... toe violently crushed by a small Jewish frisbee enthusiast two months ... revealing to me that you can get as much organic brown rice as you can fit on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  strategy led you to only get into a few classes, and here’s a few articles on ... my thoughts is a nice way for me to just get my mind off of everything ... on-campus job gets canceled. Scared about paying for a ticket to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive immersion that allows you to take the second level during the spring semester! These classes are limited-enrollment and available by special lottery only

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here ... devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We ... band, I'd say at least four had pi memorized to this many digits, and a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  least once a day, so I was intrigued by the data plan, to say the least ... big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... get him a cake from costco instead. you know, like normal people

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  , with them was a joy to me. A little less than half the summer has gone by ... *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I ... ’re having trouble waking up to get to work or going through a breakup of their ... that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... next to the shattered fragments. We also took a few mementos. (For these ... comfortable performing in front of a group [kind of to be expected] but more

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  -mac. Campus has always felt a little quieter to me during IAP. With dining halls ... of being surrounded by family. Since coming to MIT, I've oscillated ... soap operas with my parents. I no longer get to eat my mother's home

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019