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  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  , and I was inspired to sign up for kayaking as my next PE class.  To be ... , since we had Monday off for holiday. We get four-ish breaks this semester ... this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... . After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters ... and enriching; it opens you up to experiences and relationships and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  love for reading and keep up with it, even if I have to wait for less ... ended up re-reading the whole Harry Potter series (fan for life) and the ... home, and have swallowed up Purple Hibiscus, White is For Witching, The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... ridiculous the whole thing was. Then we ended up talking for the better part of ... usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  sure does keep me up at night sometimes. if not for the price the food ... ’t toast it up more. my fault for getting the rainbow bagel instead of the ... chocolate sauce) viet coffee (very coffee forward. useful for waking up

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  signed up for – this was going to be strictly for myself. And in that sense ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... was incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and kind. When I asked for help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything's going just fine! I'm registered for classes, the grad ... vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  coding project out there! Honestly, I'm super proud of us for coming up ... Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project ... among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn ... direction (up/down/left/right). players choose from a variety of songs; when a ... typical sequence of arrows[/caption] i ended up enjoying ddr a lot more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  session. even though i ended up not applying for the program, i'm a weeb and ... things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun ... , rowers float their way past my window. My roommate's prefrosh is up early

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this ... success. After an hour in which nobody showed up, followed by another hour

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in ... was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  and/or answer an email! For starters, MacGregor is divided up into 9 ... there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  weekend, we signed up for a canoeing trip and picnic lunch along the Charles ... announcements for free activities. Over Memorial Day weekend, we met the Boston 1 ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning ... bigger!): Not pictured: The wake for my recently-lost composure Couple ... IT IS IMPORTANTYes. That's MIT tip number one: when studying for long

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011