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• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... your strength, the wobbly feeling in your legs when you climb stairs the ... training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... in my closet, full of beads and wrapped in a pink feather boa. In a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  oblong "petals" are created by spinning the poi head in the opposite ... "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in ... in hand (neither of us have a smartphone), and hailed a group of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to ... that crossed my mind was Holy moly I am going to be in the vicinity of ... the previous three years I was in MITSO), you better believe I booked it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do ... right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive ... time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  hopefully there will be something in here for all readers of the blogs. Eric ... come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast-paced core curriculum in math and science and in humanities, arts, and social

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  rank." In our array representation, we'd have to search through 8 indices ... wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  WOW CPW IS HAPPENING IN TWO DAYS!!! APPARENTLY IT IS ALSO SOMETIMES ... . Second, be on the lookout in your email for more specific information later today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... for a battle in a specific location. I instantly registered and made Dan ... , fighting alongside your countrymen! We shall put those Tories in their place

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this ... concerts in the past week, for free. Concert #1: Verdi's Stabat Mater and Te ... are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this ... image placed in a different domain, such as a realistic photo. Pretty neat ... included both avatars drawn in the current style, old style, and out of style

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my ... journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was ... to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  members of the Class of 2011 are deferring to spend a year in Israel, others ... one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... , perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a last bid to say goodbye

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  I’m also interested in math-related things that aren’t directly math ... ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”, which I think is way more reasonable. In Tagalog, mathematics is sipnayan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... 't have any A.P classes and I'm not in the Intel Science program in my ... classes, we cannot expect you to take them. Also, not being in the Intel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got trained in Narcan administration and passed the exam for the session. After

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... —we have [annotation note= "as indicated by the slew of MIT confessions about ... in the 60s by a ragtag band of hockey players that has since evolved

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020