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  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  be an EMT during IAP, I could not attend the week-long program ... that I was not allowed to enter the building with the prefrosh, even if I ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  awkward middle spot: life wasn't quite full enough to feel that the semester ... to learn about what it's like to have free time when you're not burned ... (blog post to come, hopefully, but it might be a while 😅

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new ... you know why?), and a flower-pot-decorating competition. To kick off the new cycle, it's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  our robot on Monday night to be ready for the Tuesday night competition ... /lab partners, and they have to be scouted and prepared for.  Fortunately, the ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  attempted, and, not gonna lie, it's been rough. Between the changing narrative ... ), I went to the undergraduate math office in the same hallway and asked ... optimism, I turned to the Athena gods. My awesome friend Phil '07 taught me

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... . The true spirit of college fall can only be captured in something far ... : Complete by 2000 The mission was scheduled to begin at 1800, with a tight

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  , California, who reportedly has the same music taste as everyone in LA, wants to be Perceived, and has spent the past year-ish counting salmon (with ... middle school Google Drive purge, and will someday be a kind MIT stranger

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on-the ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz ... understanding, and will make the most fair decision that we can. More updates as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  — there’s always too much to do and not enough time. I’m trying to be ... get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a ... the better word here, as there’s no concrete answer to what I should do

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

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  fortunate that MIT has the financial resources to be a need blind institution, with the students being admitted without regard to their ability to pay ... I'll probably never have the opportunity to visit. For the counselors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  apparently said "you may want to evacuate...I'm not sure." The Internet has ...  flickered back on, and I happened to find myself looking down the lecture hall at ... , picked up a piece of chalk, and turned to the chalkboard. Those of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  running the realization that it's way too cold to be outside wearing only ... thanks to Vincent and Laura for being our NYC "experts" -- her word, not ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  was the first university in the nation to be named a Heartsafe Community ... that the best thing you could do would be to come here and see what we ... grades with time to do other things besides study? And I got the impression

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  less. The things that actually draw people to this place tend to be ... 't.[/annotation] However, what always seemed to piqued my interest was seeing what the ... everything I do. It’s kind of connected to the question that everyone seems to

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  not only Sonic the Hedgehog, but also Donkey Kong, Silent Hill, Myst ... were also present. They all seemed surprised when asked to come to the ... performance that was almost a perfect match to the style and tonality of the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  Scottish sheep are black." To which the physicist replied "No, no! Some ... la la la I'm going to read Interpreter of Maladies and then The ... libraries. 5. The probability that two bloggers who live next to each other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  'll be accelerating the rest of my photo journal entries to make way for my ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  protagonists at the edge of a precipice, reviving traditions that may not be the ... the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three ... the text THE WEAK SHALL BE EATEN.  REX felt like CPW from 2019, when I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  , sigh, and shut the fridge. Two minutes later, I return to the fridge ... ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action ... later, I went to my high school where Pi Day was being celebrated. I spoke

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013