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• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure ... highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and ... , somewhat neurodiverse, and very non-scary; we used to be dominated by math

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  My freshman winter break and IAP were very nice, nothing to complain about. I got to fly home and spend two weeks with my family; I came back to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places ... that momentarily suspends you between the days that were and the days ... and dislocate your knee cap just a few weeks into break, you, my friend

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Today is the 121st Boston Marathon, the oldest, and most famous ... Boston, and winds 26.2 miles through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, Brookline, and finally Boston, where the freshly-painted finish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  food, battered and deep fried (double deep fried fries?!?). Some regular ... :                   The day before we also hosted a board games and milkshakes night. The ... of our brothers designed all the circuits from the ground up, and got

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... talk about vacations and compare temperatures (-5 here, -25 in Perm). We talk about my and Cory’s apartment garden, and why my radishes won’t grow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  :30 on Tuesday and studied until 11:30am. That night, after juggling ... about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote down everything I knew, tried different things, and came up with what I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  at East Campus now, and not Next House, I'm spending a lot more time on my hall and making new friends with hallmates. I no longer tool alone (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  filled with fun events like the McCormick Hall picnic and lots of energy ... concert, featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus! The opening act was Scavenger Hunt, and they were really awesome! I got to test out my new camera

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  internal advising use only, and may have +/- modifiers, dropped ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer credits, T is a temporary placeholder for a class still in transit, and P

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love ... Admissions Facebook page and Michael C.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... wave hits a difficult spot, knowing the people you live and learn with is ... -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein ... , I’m Lydia. I’m a sophomore. I’m in courses 6-7 and 18. I’m not in 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via ... to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data (I am tracking this very closely and rigorously) supporting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  (Materials Science and Engineering) and an MSIII cadet in the Army ROTC program ... training), one military class, and one leadership lab. But I'm not here to ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  -up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of ... blurred together, and time zipped by. This summer: I got my first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , August 2nd! Snap to it! AND NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED READING ... to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two ... leaving for school in the fall, and since it's unclear when we'll have the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2014! We feel like we already know you, but feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. FYI, the reply form and CPW portlet in My

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  .125 focuses more on theory and 11.131 focuses on practical issues. For instance ... students are formative or summative, and 11.129 is more likely to talk about ... like this one. Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net And of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010