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  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  call an Uber to get to the bus station, and get stuck in traffic. Rush hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... comfortable ride to Hartford. I start looking through the 18.02 pset that is due

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the ... lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into ... you can't predict how a robot is going to look like by the end of the ... 's how it's been for me in the past. I have to accept that there are some

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... early compared to most people's schedules. I think mid-June is more normal

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... breathe. Earlier today I got a haircut in the South End and I opted to ... warmer than expected and I got to soak in the beauty of the brownstones and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of ... killian and up to the big dome, and think about how wild it is that i'm here ... . and i'm there multiple times a month, and it is a joy to keep him in my

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... . And then three of my very best friends in the world decided to leave MIT. (The retention rate at MIT is something like 97%, in case you were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  and try to work together to make everything a little better in the field ... pales in comparison to tasting it right off the production line - trust me ... .S. In response to Greg's comment about the server taking forever to post

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  . so you're diseased. Being sick at MIT is no fun. Along with the obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  structure*** The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. In other words, the ... the tricky part. Each line is written in what's known as "iambic ... a study of human nature as it is a story: the best way to describe it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  m hurdles) up to the most recent Olympics in 2004 (Steve Tucker '91 ... achievements in the academic arena as much as achievements in the sporting arena? ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... "]However,[/annotation] in this case the answer was distinctly ‘yes.’ Punching is supposed to ... I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to run anywhere from 3 to 17 miles in a closed loop around the river. 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , because faith is something that is very much within a person. It is in the ... is still mostly men. I would love to spend a day in her shoes (and ... the hijab at the age of 8, very much clueless as to what it meant in a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  . I've learned that fear is often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning ... ’ve grown close to the people in the club: those who are just as eager to ... favorite parts of the year is our retreat in the woods with other East Coast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is really to come and talk to us in person, as iHouse is just too diverse and ... Festival! Although this is only one small entry in the extensive CPW listing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... the GRE, we would've had to start studying in senior year of high school ... we ate at a Lot as kids. If we had to choose one smell that is the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  -built formula cars in the world. FSAE is an international, collegiate ... problem sets to build an entire racecar. Most of the teams we visited had ... -time members, admission onto the team is usually granted to only sophomores and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the ... " inside the pot, put in the chicken, and set it to cook. After a few minutes ... not really a recipe, in as much as it is an idea for what things you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021