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  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... thing about urban Boston, and one I wouldn't give up for the world, is ... experiences for the blogs, so I asked the blogger Slack for some questions for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  easily meet up to hang out in the city. We’d meet up for dinner at my ... could do pull-ups, I’d substitute them out for ring rows. I love the ... sharing a story that I felt was still being written. I can’t just pick up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  ’d just use one of our coffee filters wrapped up in a little cone for this ... cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... for food I didn’t even find that good. So, I’ve spent the last five

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st ... . I decided to take more time with my MIT application and ended up ... Course 11-6 was an ideal fit for my intersecting interests in urbanism

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings ... [/annotation] with a sign that says “Free Listening.” I’ve never actually gone up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up ... . (Minor spoiler for Paige’s post: You can represent points as coordinates ... shows up everywhere in mathematics. Wikipedia lists a few dozen famous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  basically the only board game on floorpi that i would end up playing for the ... 't line up well enough for us to play on floorpi often anymore, so a ... 've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for ... album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  up for games. i've been getting burnt out by many things, these days ... or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... to put them all up, and then I thought I might share with you what I ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note ... friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... on campus, so we headed straight for our dorm, Next House. I'd been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  when I slept for 14 hours a day and came out a mostly different person ... small thing. Here's what I've been up to: 1. Having a job This summer ... at the end of all this, I'll write them up and post them somewhere (on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  , thinking about final assignments and projects for the semester, thinking ... boxed and stored away for three months. i moved back [annotation note="real home"]home[/annotation] for a week, where i was mostly alone, besides the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  can say for certain is that we started this fall semester again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming ... up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  . wow. First up, 11.125: Understanding and Evaluating Education CI-H HASS ... quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more ... years back, for example. When I was practicing with an instructor, did she

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  set screenings that perfectly summed up everything we love in animation ... was that we found out what the final for the class is: DO ANYTHING and ... HILARIOUS (and free) comedy show. Not many people showed up so it was a great

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  ’s basketball team turning up strong! If “athletics” isn’t the first word that ... sacrifice academics for athletics, and very rarely the opposite, either. A big ... makes for athletics. Despite what may happen at other schools, MIT does

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... . It's time for the next year, whether that's college, senior year ... have you guys been up to? Remember to call home and all that, and visit

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  Spooner, who Wikipedia advertises as "notable for absent-mindedness". This ... spoonerisms (or oonerspisms for the similarly absent-minded), and at this rate ... of rite of passage for computer science students, and I'd spent both

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017