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• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  consolation, so here are some poems that i like to go back to every now and then ... come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you ... asking children but they are far too happy to entertain my pleas and i ask

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  admissions and summer days. What are you doing this summer? Currently, you are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for ... destructive game where you score as many acceptance letters as possible. Harvard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , describing what they've left where, and people scurry to claim it and carry it away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where ... have also seen some much stranger things in there.) There are a few

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  whisk them off the ground and up 12 floors where they flutter around like ... , to dress in cosplay and geek out with other fans, to go to a city where there are non-academic-seeking tourists and artists and people simply

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  The Tech that the club sports had an amazing year and are another option ... are over 450 clubs to join that are sure to make MIT a little more like ... going to a large school where no one knew me or my business was a little

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  think of MIT, I think of an incredible place where amazing people do remarkable things every day. It is also a place where many discover that their quirks and eccentricities are an important dimension of who they are, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  do a varsity sport, deciding where to live, where to eat, how to manage ... would like to let you all know that they are the 23 coolest freshmen on campus, with the exception of the freshmen who are living in French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  that. Sometimes it drizzles, sometimes it pours, but there are weeks where it just rains. This week is one of them. It has been raining pretty ... finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  with the shop guys in Pappalardo (where we build out 2.007 robots.) I ... -oriented fitness challenge that is open to the entire MIT community. Teams are ... goals are entered into weekly drawings for prizes. Summer is just one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to turn out for the big football game and get drunk beforehand, or where ... (many of whom I've met, and are super nice people). And MIT's athletic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  made from caiman skin). One of the instruments was particularly fascinating – by blowing it through his nose, he somehow made a sci-fi laser ... rehearse one of our pieces. Fred was visibly distressed (which also made us

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  made were in the sections i choreographed (the irony…). my parents really ... pineapple instead of a bouquet of flowers, which made my night even better ... were probably the only conscious movements i made in the whole two hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  of those things happened, but I made it through every one of them, and ... 'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for breakfast, made an attempt at making my bed, and I might even go to the gym

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  metaphysical walls of Sachse, Texas, where I’d grown up. They had immigrated from ... life since then had been one loooong trip away from home. Yet they made ... field was open for exploration and play. And what made that huge field so

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  Field Training this summer :) Other than that, your summers/IAP are free ... students the opportunity to complete that training while they are in college ... in areas of conflict.[/caption] Are you required to join the military

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  've been doing the past few months anyway. anyway, here are some things i ... of my new room. observe that there are 18 windows, 6 that are obscured ... being the underexercised weakling i am, who also made the bad decision of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... the importance of inclusion and diversity are relevant to society as ... her time, but this made me question everything. My driving test a few

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  . During the day, the sky here is a plain blue and the houses are beige. The ... mother deer’s three babies are concentrated on grass. At sunset, the ... schedule. You can often hear (MIT) seniors say they are old because can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  . there are people graduating today that i've known since high school. and there are people that i only got to know this year or this semester ... another. i don't believe that friendships are defined by length

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two ... Tuesday nights. Most ELLs are recycled from the previous year with minor ... minutes. ELLs are two hours long, so we obviously needed to throw in some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011