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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... bus from Emeryville, CA, another fifty-six hours later. All in all, the trip totals seventy-eight hours of travel, with a four-hour layover in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  students participate because the schedule is flexible and you can really participate in sports that may be brand new to you without ever having played ... it in the future. Diana asked "Would you rather be able to stop time

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things:  1) I ... instructions 2) I've setup a WeMo Switch connected to IFTTT so I can turn on my air conditioner with a text message from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  armies and a slave named Caroline Terry. In case you're interested: As I ... also remembered that if a snake chases you, you're supposed to run in a ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... many intersections in MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know ... can guess. You’ll get a mental map of what MIT looks like. It won’t be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  popular in a early 90's anime show. If you would like more information about him you can click on this link. "The female character in the picture is ... you can still check out all of the MIT Admissions blogs at my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... being in lab. You see, I am taking Project Lab, this 30-unit class (normal ... only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  admissions authentically, but we can’t write about what it’s like to live in ... classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth ... the mood strikes. We may ask you to help advise creative projects in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  packs of gum because I mentioned that the kind you had in your backpack ... writing UROP, Jess? “What in the world is a writing UROP?” you ask.* *Way ... with the letter V and ended with the letters “for Vendetta,” you can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  detachment, you can still participate in ROTC at another school in the area ... in the program. You can find a lot more information about that at ... , based in colleges and universities. If you join the program, you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  starts -- they put up the fall 2005 schedule in late May -- so I don't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be taking 7.31 (Current Topics in Mammalian Biology), a seminar-style upper

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  'll introduce ourselves to you. -Student Activities Fair: Saturday, 1-3pm ... free swag and begging for your email address. You can get a sense of what types of activities you can, and will, get involved with. There will be

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  Admissions blogger. If you want to read a little bit about me, you can check ... . But Piper, you might ask, how can you possibly show me a new view of MIT ... ;   Here you can see a good portion of west campus. The tall building

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  you met in the gym (hi Aaron!) You meet people in a huge variety of ... you do the same for them. Here at MIT, we hold each other up in a delicate but reliable balancing act: when you arrive, take up a place in it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... remembered that we can. All futures have a past; indeed, one reason we do ... thing you do when you study history is to realize that while the past

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  how to deal with all this guilt. or hi, i think i’m crazy, can i talk to someone? i opted for the more conservative hi, i’m here for walk-in hours ... in his classes. and i told dan that you don’t have to save the world

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  forward, you can see exactly where you’re going!” “Above the tracks, you can ... [Siding], because if you look out to the right, you can see oblivion! We ... on the Speaker’s race. Instead, I can tell you that the aforementioned

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  that it is one of the few sports that you can pick up in college and be ... video of the heavyweight men so you can see what the sport is like ... the team! If you're interested in walking onto the team for the 2015

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... you a little, you know? So last week Thursday, when my mom flew in from ... before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006