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  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  your mind and body. We’re actually recommended to wear long sleeve shirts and jeans to shield ourselves from the heat. Anyways, we also learned how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of ... cart for a store fixture, attempting to remove items for their own use

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So ... about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  Now that it's too late to turn back you've decided to matriculate to MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically means all the MIT crew teams ship out down to Cocoa Beach, FL, and spend

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  pretend to twirl a drum stick - to prove it. So let me fix that: Because Elizabeth '13 has a good point: we all need some way to show you we're not ... moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should be used to, and things hit you one after another. Last week, I had ... school anymore. Okay, so it's Columbus Day. Same thing, to non-Jewish me

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about ... and immensely bloggable. Now that we've sipped through autumn down to ... day on which I will again not tell you about FASAP. Except, that is, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  When I went online to start typing up this post, I noticed an ... writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and ... ago who claimed to be from München. So he will probably comment again ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least, I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  toilet.  My dad kneeled behind me, pressing his hands to my stomach to add ... distended to suddenly hollowed out.  Eventually, my parents tucked me back in ... remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... : reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something through writing alone. To all seniors: wow. I empathize with you a ton. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020