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• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  's probably not in your best interest to use the comments to wonder about this ... held, and many varsity sports practice then. MIT competes in Division ... MIT vary quite a bit in the level of people who play them. In some

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

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  (from the MIT campus newspaper, The Tech. This comic was published in ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware ... worth 2 points; participating in a varsity sport is worth 4 points. (We

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  , and among the halls and entries in those dorms. With such living group ... buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... Haus are in the midst of the academic buildings, only a few feet away

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  photos, plus Bryan SOAKING WET! One thing Bryan didn't do in his busy ... phone call at around 1 AM (which is only 10 PM in Northern California ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us from time to time - our door is almost always open. If you're not here in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all. What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... made oats in the same pan, and was about to do the chicken, too, when I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... in mind.   doing more stuff Everyone I’ve met at MIT has an ... play, I started adding fun to responsibility. I’ve turned in most of my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a ... . [annotation note="some people in Radio Society are probably immortal"]Back in ye olde

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... have a significant amount of time to dedicate to it.A key factor in these ... subject of your essay. You cannot just be “in your own head” or making broad

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... taken as a comment made in bad faith, especially among older Filipinos. An ... factor is that, despite taba in Tagalog meaning the same as the English fat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked ... because it only charged my phone up to 31% after being plugged in all day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... Shakespearean sonnets, maybe some contemporary pieces from a brief unit in sixth ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... cautiously cracked it open again, there were no moths in sight. And that was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... direct differences in the types of contributions made by the Microsoft ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation note = "the lawn in front of the big dome"]Killian Court

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... was going to fare in college. Being slightly socially awkward and ... to fit in with. Coming to MIT, though, proved me completely wrong. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... out resulting in being kicked out or disowned or worse.  My coming out was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... have after you click ok: Zoom in and out using ctrl+ - and ctrl ... toolbars might be in different places- I don't remember where everything is

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019