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• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] While MITSO, MITWE, and Chamber Chorus all have a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians ... of a mix of undergrads, grad students, and other people, some of whom

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new level. And that's why this story starts with that question. - Julie H ... ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT Associate Provost Philip Khoury brought together the MIT arts faculty and ... the Arts), Pardis Parsa (Office of Arts Initiatives), myself, and Mei

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  snowboarding with a couple of my friends from high school, and if you’ve ever ... when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of ... Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  . This semester, with two of them, Roman History (21H.302) and Reading ... and 8.06. I really love both these classes though. I'm this walking ... yesterday's assigned reading, and I'm feeling more well-read every day with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  This IAP I took Italian I, and it was basically awesome. You might ... ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  course numbers: “18.02, 5.112, 7.012, and 8.012.” So I know I'm not in ... subjects themselves: “Well, I took calculus, chemistry, biology, and physics ... and relatives is that, “Oh, I'm heading back this Sunday for IAP.” If I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... own film series) and afterwards slept like a rock. This morning, I woke ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of ... , downtown Boston, Fenway Park, and the infamous CITGO sign from many of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... ! Yay! Go check out Luis's Blog and say hi. Next, Mystery Hunt! Yes I ... , metapuzzles, and some data about teams involved in the hunt. One of my absolute

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  before. I felt lost and unhappy, wondering if I truly did not belong here ... nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... peers and professors, people I respected and admired, solely because I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before ... ourselves and our bags onto the 14 hour flight. The best part was that not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like: we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value and support by organizing into small squads of people that hang out a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  , because it's just so sad and generally emotionally taxing to think about ... in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because ... comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet ... keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa. This blog will focus on the ... many other appliances save for the few plates, utensils, and other

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... and lobster tail (it doesn't have [annotation note="if you want this, go to Alive and Kicking Lobsters in West Cambridge"]actual lobster

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020