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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy ... PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  more fundamental changes in worldview 6am: it’s starting to get bright ... differences in how we develop anxiety, and then they tell me to see a ... how to either solve or live with my problems in spite of everything, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  -and-greet in April, and I compared that tiny get-together to “seeing color for ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I sometimes ran late to work in the morning just because I wanted to talk to my

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... take care of yourself in a new environment without Mom and Dad around to ... long as you get a chance to begin learning what it means to have the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... to thank him -I loved cross registering at MassArt twice in sophomore

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is ... [annotation note="this corresponds to sometime in May or June — it’s not ... that a poet drowned in a river and people raced out in boats to find him

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  learning how to read circuit board schematics and getting firehosed about ... my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... Opportunities Program), which means I get to have an on-campus job doing cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  how we didn’t know what to do. I sit in the ESP office for a while ... they wanted to have in their last week on campus. He talked about getting ... since getting kicked off, I’ve tried to turn it from the jumbled mess of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  it occurs to me that Dentist and Nurse are probably involved in some ... in months sometimes grow beards. ("I just had to. It's one of those ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out ... 'm unable to fit the last open section into my schedule. You know how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in ... me. I spent from 9 AM to 2 PM in various chat rooms, blogs, forums, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  , to “get by”, but far below what it felt like to be swimming in new ... . There’s been getting to know the new friends in my life, both at the dorm ... another three hours to writing a story—Dionysus, about a conflicted girl in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... experience in Photoshop (thank you @ my old Tumblr for teaching me how to make ... , or I just want to sit in all day and cry because of how much there is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too ... how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• 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 ... point is, it's funny how if you have major changes in your life, like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  wanted people to discover how cool square dancing is. i wanted to give ... their dorm hallways and build rollercoasters in their courtyards and get ... did years ago when he lived in floorpi. i tell him about how the culture

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022