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• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  when you haven't seen your friend in a while. Being away from the 'tvte ... impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I ... taillights in front of you. Climbing as a sport is essentially non

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot ... say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11-page story, two midterms and starting a new UROP hasn't left a whole lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a ... extracurricular activity or two, plus a UROP, and still graduate on time and happy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... nontraditional research in a variety of disciplines. This year, awards were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised ... publicly. At a recent meeting, we were going around talking about how our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  future, or people who time-travelled from a year before 2024: "Aura points ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... ."]Family Weekend[/annotation] about a week ago (a few weeks ago, by the time this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence) and[annotation note = "tl;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was ... people, so when our[annotation note = "first is crazy I know, but a lot of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a ... too. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blogpost about how I was halfway

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina ... MITMo last year and I love this post so definitely give that a read. This ... though it'll probably be a bit different during the performance for any

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my ... a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... . Then that following fall I lived with four people including myself in a ... anyone else's benefit (if it's helpful, that's a plus) but also just as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a ... college; others advertised a research internship as early as sophomore year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  if the 2021s will actually get a graduation ceremony though. It ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my GRA would make waffles for our hall; a particular fencing meet; walking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... ." "Yeah, I know. You told me that last time." He grabs a plate and starts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  more closely with students as a college counselor in a high school setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  seriously:  pay attention during REX.  Having fun at a dorm’s quirky event?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with each other while taking a break from psets late at night.  All of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to ... somewhat early) and a large proportion of the bloggers were probably still ... . We started off with an exhibit with art by Takashi Murakami, a modern

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... 21L.590 would be the perfect chance to finally take a Literature course

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017