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  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook ... - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... topic.  People have many ways of dealing with the stress.  For me, winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  ended up building a 3-D twister game, some huge speakers, a hammock for ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... -constructed roller coaster going up outside my new home. I wandered around in awe

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship ... as early as 2 AM (!). And then I woke up and it was 7:13 AM on Tuesday ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  , Noah '09, and Chris '09 all showed up for breakfast and joined our table ... awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  . We all met up and walked over to Fenway for a late lunch. Nothing like ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing ... get up and keep fighting, because you will make it. And when the match

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  mullets. Remember, good things always come in threes. Any other bloggers up for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... catch up on current events through the vast library of Newsweek, Time, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... kept detailed track of my sleep patterns for almost three years now. I ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might as well give up now, right? during the fall and winter of 2020, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ; thursday I was up working until 10:30 pm, which is very late for me but very ... break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... some point. For many, it comes first semester. This is why MIT provides

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  wake-up bugle call that serves as an alarm clock for campers everywhere ... glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  many people you meet for the first time that you end up seeing again (and ... free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... floor's events! For example, my floor is holding[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  't ready for it. Sure enough, I woke up on Saturday morning with awful muscle ... literally THREE weeks into the semester. Anyways... Last Friday, I woke up ... figured that I'd inevitably gotten it from him. That night, I danced for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  for a while. Keep your eyes on the swings, though—they're snatched up ... that I've made up for that. Honorable mentions that don't really count ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  ! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for ... the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... Jose, California. I brought with me all that I would need for the next 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... were? I even ended up living in her suite for REX week (affectionately ... , losing sleep only to have to wake up that next morning for even more 8am

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me ... declaring writing as my second major. Well, applying for the second major ... for it being late. Also, I thought it was hilarious that I had to write

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT dome. I’ve been on campus for three weeks, but still every time I pass beneath it, I shudder. For years, I had admired it from a distant ... mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014