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• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  . Unfortunately, I've picked up a new hobby that makes that second rule a little more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... events, I was deprived of my laptop for over 3 weeks. How ridiculous were ... ) My power cord broke. Okay, that's annoying, but I can borrow a friend

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  a website called Project Happy Memory, which you can check out here ... could! Yayy. (2) I know many of you are at the point in your school year ... some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and ... in bits all around the website. I do feel funny clarifying this, but if ... activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  On January 1st, I enjoyed a nice New Year's dinner with my family. We ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  . Now, I know what you're thinking. How can the folder possibly hold a ... new year rolled in (what? it’s my graduating year already?), I have to ... adolescence. 2017 is a revolutionary year for me. It's almost eerie how I can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer ... how to learn I'm the kind of person that can't learn things on my own ... . I'm the kind of person where I either finish the book in one sitting/can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , dance performances, and more. Shikhar asked, "Can I send in softwares ... well too). Is the recommendation process set in stone, or can I use his ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  pictures, so I guess I'll start to "show, not tell." (Pwahaha. How many of ... room just screamed, "Take a nap. NOW!" One thing I did notice in all ... because I'm just in Physics Honors. The room was pretty though. After 30

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... cover other things, like fridges or laptops, but I like them all in one place. Layers and layers have built up. I like how the less

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  today at Noon EST. Hope you can watch! http ... towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  than I realized...) It's a preposterous idea considering how many ... trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as something that could buy X amount of Y. I told her I always jokingly see money

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  folder. Then I went over to check on the new locker space with all of my ... that I CTRL+A'd the new locker space and deleted all of those files ... the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  -way presentation. In a two-way conversation, for example, you can ask "and how about ... MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... you can see the wind in them before it hits you. 4:06 pm: I have desk ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  ) major. I have recently completed my HASS Concentration in Course 11 (Urban ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I ... yes, you CAN major in art at MIT. Here it has more of a studio art

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process. In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM ... keep capitalizing the "Very Important" descriptor. Back in December, I ... month when he gave it to me. Fine. I can just use it online, right? After

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016