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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way ... One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  die instantly. So, it's better to err on the side of caution here. And ... the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , etc) but CPW definitely put MIT up on top of my list. I always knew MIT ... groups at many places on the web, including the Office of the Arts website ... Today's interesting read: Jay Mathews' Washington Post column on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  ! The Daily Show is now on, and Jon Stewart is making fun of Ashlee ... I'm sitting on my couch with my friend Jeff (who, after graduating ... ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ’t do well on most of them, unfortunately.  Grad School??? After going ... A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to ... the largest labs on campus, encompassing various fields of research from ... protocol or to finish a test we're working on, I can think of no better way

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  out of the way without your 'bad' grades showing up on your transcript ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  to learn how to cook. Most of my time was spent on school ... note="meat and spices on a thin piece of bread ... see a stack of lahmajo on the bakery counter, I cross the street and buy

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  ’t really give out a lot of advice on these blogs. A year ago, on a post ... I see on reddit — there’s this sense that people want to know all of ... knowledge is incredibly meaningful, too. On one of the first problem sets I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  number of electives. The units required depend on your department, and can ... RESOURCES (Note that this is a partial list of resources based on my ... ): there’s at least one on every floor of each residence hall (more than if

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and ... on a two-sentence synopsis. moving onto my floor of BC was the most ... several of us gathered on Kresge to film a video of it over the weekend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that ... feeling that the weight of cancer was sitting on my back, and my back alone

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  recognize that my smile is independent of my bank account or the label on my ... . Although I am determined not to write much on the subject of MIT’s difficulty ... , occasionally, on NPR blaring through a $6 radio. At MIT, the pace of life is much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... summers ago to develop a certain kind of airplane on his own. But most of ... store on the first floor of our dorm), which is pretty much the only place

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  of a frame on a white board and then cut some scrap wood in the shop to ... lot more water than I was willing to actually have sitting on my desk ... a 20 gallon fish tank inside of your dorm room"] and more than what

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  District the other day, and the five of us spent a good while trying on ... towels on fire (courtesy of Tetazoo) getting pelted by a spoonful of cake ... hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... : while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . **** On one side of MIT lies Boston, a place of opportunity and beautifully ... . The courtyard is now full of life. The sun reflects off the silver spray paint on ... of Baker House on Drop Date. Noam Chomsky is coming to speak again. And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  a plant, I need a certain amount of sunshine to thrive. And on sunny ... study area in Hayden Library, and it's one of the only places on campus I ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006