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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,100-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in ... a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... sardonic straight man and deliver a deflating riposte that points out how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... quite a lot of things that we love.  We love learning.  We love solving ... somehow orchestrate and compile a specific sequence of events, activities

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword. Fit is something with a million different meanings, highly subjective

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... excitement, Prof. Grimson is a wonderful guy. He's incredibly fair and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... mechanical engineering. I'd never taken a final before winter break or got out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  and checked off a huge goal on our season bucket list! It really doesn’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id ... ; Any team that wins their conference championship automatically gets a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... brighten your day. So, what is this dish? Pakaprow is a spicy Thai basil

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a ... hate most about this time of year. I've never had a good spring semester

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Happy 10th birthday, blogs!!! I made you a cake! (With help from ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... ambitions), become a lawyer (wrong), and be married with kids within 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... start a jar of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In Italy, in an overcast

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014