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• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  even was, let alone how I could be useful. All we knew is that we would ... . Learning this, I should've known that showing up in my MIT MechE merch would ... Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  . but what if i don’t? i’ve been thinking about what it would be like to ... in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... ways (except parenting, which i currently have no interest in). but right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... day in 5.112 -5.12 -INTEGARLS* -3.091, or, How to Draw Pretty Pictures ... -Category Theory Please Don't Ask Me How I Know This -Save the Whales

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  "I would walk 500 miles" people. Check out places I've visited: (note ... The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week, so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I ... it would be like if I didn’t go to MIT, if I went to college back in ... classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check ... a fair price for their work, at least double the price they obtain in ... and the unique pieces placed in Art Galleries, where people will be able

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• 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 / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  class, like 18.02 or 8.01, I would be disappointed in myself, but since 7 ... ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... enjoyed. I would have to be rigorous, I told myself, and I would be forced

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math Level IIC and Physics in SAT II, will that over-ride my bad SAT I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  also at the lunch. Now I hope to motivate how statistically significant ... . The group will gather in Dr. Hockfield's reception area in 3-208 at noon, and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn ... blogs and didn’t have too much content left in me. Next semester, I’ll be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... think about it, it startles me how much performing arts there are in mit ... person would appreciate a hug from them. and, i don't know. a cynical me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  musical i ever saw, back in 2011, and so this really would be coming back ... highest priority in life right now, I haven’t been doing near as much reflecting as I usually do), and so many things have happened in life that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... about MIT for me is definitely how hard I’ve fallen in love with it. Sure ... entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  probably head back, but how FUNNY would it be if I ran to the airport? I ... I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back ... descent in wikipedia rabbitholes [three cool rabbitholes i found: marathons

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... in Baker... nobody from my home, though. Today I was home and doing ... Madden high-heeled shoes that a) I have never worn, and b) I would not be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  , in a sense, it is what I would answer to the questions “what is the ... people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021