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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  opportunity to just have fun. Students at MIT have launched Camp Kesem, or Camp ... expanded to 22 campuses in 14 states. Camp Kesem at MIT, founded by Caroline ... . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... and bad haircuts. Wednesday night, I braved the long lines to wait for

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story about struggling with sacrificing self-care to prioritize academics ... the story I told. But ultimately, I want to let this story speak for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to ... amazing summer. I haven't even had the chance to blog about all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to ... to rival volcanic eruptions are also very exciting to see. A few ... until I was old enough to have my own stereo system, I jammed out with her

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  over the other proves to be a mind-clearing activity. So while stuffing clothes into the drawer this week, I realized that since I've come to MIT, I've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to ... was totally wrong about bikes on campus. I've always walked to class ... , and who am I to refuse free stuff? First, it took me under 10 minutes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit sporadic during my trip. I've had a chance to think about the recent thread

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided to confirm my original assignment at Burton-Conner. The adjustment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly explained to us that while most of us probably thought that cream tea was an

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show, "AfroShake" When I first sat down to talk to Emmanuel, that feeling of ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off ... tried, the moment refused to hit me. Almost accusingly, I remember, she pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiVYEjp0Ww&ab_channel=SaltTech We hope you are happy! Take some time to celebrate with those who are important to you; we'll have more important, cylindrical information for you

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022