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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They ... "Running Store" category for the past 5 years. I'm not sure how much

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... 't updated in 6 days; you guys are my American Idols. I also discovered while ... 'm hoping that I'll either be able to find one abandoned in a basement when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  's, but all too often it can also mean being stuck in lab, not eating.  And ... access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  get a B- in 8.01. I have no clue how that happened; I am guessing that ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of failing. I had done ok in the semester, failing or barely passing most tests

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers ... for making large-scale flat glass; each new breakthrough in glass

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college ... methodic math and CS problems I get in my psets. It's also incredibly useful

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... "] timequake![/caption] Now, however, I am writing you from my [annotation note="Overlooking...Chipotle."]new ... , part of the the Institute's new front door in Kendall Square. The new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  was part of the packaging of my brand new awesome laptop): OK, I find ... come grocery shopping? That way you can buy lots of big, bulky things and ... (awesome) new room (pictures to come later, when it looks nice enough that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  competition that teaches you how to build a website that you can then submit to ... coincidence, and I still do not know how it just fixed itself (but I’m in no way ... worked most days, was about 10 ft away from this ladder! I lived in a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  . I had no idea how unique certain aspects of my everyday life in the US ... verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess ... the airport. Twenty "short" hours from now (ugh) I will be in my new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  .  Usually there'll be a dozen or so trips per weekend in New Hampshire ... Sunday, staying at a MITOC cabin overnight, and then ice climbing in New ... important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  ways in which I can learn how to use it for good, rather than just being ... with Raymond showed me that I can be in these really intense, serious ... how far I've come in such a short amount of time. 2022 was a year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the ... undergrads in this area, including one of the courses featured in the new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  and composure and I was so, so impressed by how she handled CodeIt in ... , programming, and video games. I can't wait to see what they do in the future ... 'm qualified to teach. But after, strangely, I have a new confidence in myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  debt, because they were like "Oh man, look how cool that new HDTV is! I ... cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a ... probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  know how to do everything in your current position, but that your new ... In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  Raymond's website and you can find the original post here. Part 1 ... were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off ... ': { float newSpeed = in.substring(1).toFloat(); stepper.setSpeed(new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... . [/annotation]I love that I can find a new topic to obsess over, email people, and ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022