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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  and realized just how much I had changed in a year. For so many months ... better. But in that moment in the grass, all I could think about was how ... .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  ="72486" /] How does this compare to two years ago? In my sophomore IAP blog post, I ... , sophomore IAP; I would pause, in the late afternoon sunlight or the early ... in the back of my mind until I was finally able to finish it over IAP

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... one major, so i should choose whichever path i’m more interested in. 2. choosing whatever i’m interested in is easier than it sounds. i’m probably

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• 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
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  about them. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing--I never would have met ... or whatever at a particular fire alarm, and how cold it was. I know 3 ... '10 in the background. Anyway, I gave her some cocoa to thank her for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog ... what lab I'll be in: I'll be working in the Koch Institute for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020