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  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  trip to Shea Stadium for my first Met game all season (!!!), and then it ... Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their ... whatnot. So leaving was bittersweet. To commemorate the day, I thought I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  group, to serenade some guy in the first row. At the end of the serenade ... off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  So, if you've been deferred, you may be asking, "What now?" First ... . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now that I've returned from a long time away, I'm getting ready to head out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ’m far from the first person to talk about Barbie, and its importance to ... Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... often have at this stage; please read through the FAQ to check if your question is here! Q: What do I do next? A: First, you should create a My

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  dorms. this data was used to justify two decisions: first, to prohibit new ... surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  to check out a book for the first time (as it turns out, they exist for ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  to first check it out. MIT seems to be littered with free a cappella ... Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  the T (only $2 to go from South Station to Kendall). Look! The first ... to MIT, I think this would be one of the first choices. There were some ... to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  volunteered to act as tornado victims to help train first responders. I was ... how to write to y'all. I think it stemmed from some internal rubric forcing me to complete my thoughts, to fully flesh out and consider every

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for MISTI Israel, but since i had no idea if i had been accepted to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote this instead. There's frankly not too much to say because I've been

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... to?” This semester, I am taking two philosophy classes, though ... discussed, disproven, or altered. Then to be discussed, disproven, or altered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  win any prize at all, I still won't be the first (prospective) doctor to ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How, uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011