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• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and ... at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information ... learned a bit about winter fashion, and how to dress appropriately. I was

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  I can't do anything on my own. That I've used so many crutches in my ... reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... very strange looks. Whatever. Let the world judge. Also, I can't resist ... towels this week, or 2) suck it up and put them in the laundry. I picked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  involvement in many different clubs. I also met a lot of new students from other ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  stations set up in Maseeh, I decided on the safest option there is: a freshly ... ate: It looked like I had waken in on an asian-inspired dinner menu ... consensus is that this is in fact the best dining hall on campus. What I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  huge success! In our conference, the [annotation note="New England Women ... weekend, and something about how good we’re playing makes me think we can ... Carroll. Everything is on the line this game, and you can feel just how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  subjects like UROP and Arts. I am SO excited to roll out the new layout and ... is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  the mic in their hand New York, NJ, N.C., VA We on Award Tour with ... Called Quest Hello All! As you can see I'm taking the fight to the people! In the last few weeks I had MIT Central meetings in Washington, DC

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  with students taking an active part in the discussion. I'll try to note some of the more interesting events as IAP progresses. Also, I asked in a ... events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... piece of digital interactive fiction. I ended up choosing to write this in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology ... to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... life and in this process there isn’t much they can do to help beyond

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at it again. The pizza ... evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  master's student, I can't live in the[annotation note="There are graduate dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... This weekend, I moved into a new apartment. This academic year, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008