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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of ... tallest bars and wonder, what could possibly have taken her 30,000 steps to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more ... Courseroad and Firehose have added so much value to current students ... to dormspam:  Hello, fellow kids --   As you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  .100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a ... : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  facebook group last night, and wanted to copy it here in case anyone out there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day! * * * * * * * * * * * * * hey everyone! just wanted to pop in and say hi as decision day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview for us! Listen to the full interview here: I hoped you enjoyed me fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a shower, got an early lunch, and took the 11am bus to wellesley. i caught up ... positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  to DO things, but writing is difficult. So, I have decided to write ... graduate school applications amidst the back to school drill. For my survival ... to use the remaining summer time to fall in love with the writing

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty-six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in the eye and put down electronics when we talk, to go to bed and get up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

    Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him ... faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to ... down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a Class 1 storm), the foreboding weather phenomenon that caused Boston to ... measure. In response to this announcement, MIT officially closed at 3pm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a ... back to California for a highly anticipated return home. I hadn’t had the ... like to do sometimes when no one is watching) since winter break so to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  coaxing, I managed to wobble (screeching) down the sidewalk to a gyro cafe and back. Two days later, I managed to transport myself down a riverside ... up to Franklin Bridge, and the plan was to camp overnight before riding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... ? Go ahead. You wanna go to class as a princess? No problem. Go trick ... going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013