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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  . bummer. - i use my hands to talk. a lot. but it’s not the good kind of ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... home and am excited to see what the rest of these next four years will

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer ... , though, since I ran one unofficial marathon at the height of the pandemic

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about ... minutes later, I arrived at Kendall Square. This is the location of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on ... student, the level of intensity skyrockets. The professors move pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  just as good. And I think really liking the state of my home and having a ... do good work that you are proud of. Be open to the opportunities that ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some of the most amazing women I’ve met at MIT. Throughout the past year

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  address, so I snapped a shot of the poster... Being proactive, I decided ... to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  good sense of one's core values and constantly tacking towards the mean ... getting good sleep, and eating well, and all the other important bits of ... first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... composite history of the year's blizzards. In New Hampshire, up in the White

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  promising and in good hands. Yes, it's Saturday, and I'm working. Much of the ... ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  highlight of my life thus far, were it not for the fact that - good news ... On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the ... , they could've divided XYZ differently. the last week of my semester has ... with three of their other friends in the area before coming to east

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  gyms and free practice hours for members of the teams). We have an ... MIT vary quite a bit in the level of people who play them. In some ... stringent about tryouts and cut quite a few of the people who try out. If you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... note="conversations under the star-studded skies of New Hampshire, 'how ... of the herbs didn’t sprout, and the other half eventually died due to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing I'm thinking about, here are some of the ideas I've jotted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of what's better (kind of like the Challenge Towers from Mortal Kombat). Now

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light on all of this and so I'll begin with what's on the forefront of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  would gladly accept the following: a) Any type of baked good b) Techno ... categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... Regular Action" which happened to be the exact title of my post. Hm, go

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008