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• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  over Briggs Field and miraculously stayed airborne for over 6 seconds. Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... lab. GEL stands for the Gordon Engineering Leadership program, and it is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... Foods as being too expensive for college students. However, you can shop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you ... ’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions ... Every Day lift or run practice handstands write something not for yourself ... for a workshop hosted by the Urban Metabolism Group, within which I have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... student--that's what the memorial was for. Caroline assembled lanterns to ... going into any specific detail, I'll say that this year has, for me

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For ... dusty piano for an impromptu concert. On special occasions, the projector

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... for Valentine’s Day, we watched a documentary for more on nuclear ... Beat, a set of lighted attachments for guided drum learning - video here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  precious I’ve stripped away hobbies and for-fun activities and learned what I ... reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in ... missing—skiing and then пельмени for dinner, forests and rivers and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  meanings for IAP: 1. Infinite Amounts of Pancakes My friends Jamal E. '14 and Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to ... was there for eggs, toast, and emotional support. We ended up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... these last two posts were just me typing furiously on a keyboard for a ... started blogging, I wondered for a while what my "writing style" was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  ’t say for sure when the Plague started, but I remember clearly the day it ... emails to professors: “I have been ill for quite some time now, and it is incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing ... Astro department canceled classes on Thursday and Friday for the AeroAstro Centennial

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... was away for much of my internship, I was handed a large deal of ... segments, which are then robotically assembled in space.  For my project I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  reschedule all 4th of July festivities for last night as a precautionary ... Charles. As for me, a group of people who normally live in B Entry packed ... here for the next month or so if you’re curious. After that, we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a ... London. I don't really want The Internet to know my address, so for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me now... Some things are definitely the same - for instance, I wrote this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes it took for my plane to arrive, board, depart, and probably get to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop ... Panama. I remember pretty much none of it (including take-off) except for the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014