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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures ... . '15 and Becca G. '14 organized a last minute spring camping trip with 18 ... this last minute opportunity to relax and have some fun climbing, hiking

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  productive, tiring and relaxing at the same time. I've learned that Python is ... long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all ... , and this seemed like the perfect solution. Plus, I get bored easily, and ... , silver, pink, and orange, but the orange turned out more brown and the pink

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I ... left behind to avoid their judgmental gazes. I've been running and running and running, eyes set on the shining lighthouse that was MIT, and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  prefrosh, and mine as a jaded East Campus CPW chair. The Build-Up [Ankita ... :’) Like a true #13, I spent hours creating and revising my schedule, and though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... decent part in Hack Punt Tool because it was about MIT students and you are ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  Spring season has started, and guess who got to lace up their cleats and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed ... collision in our scrimmage against Harvard left me with a broken bone and a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... , or whenever someone i knew joined twitter and acquired more followers ... occasionally those people will like your tweets and amplify them to a larger

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... ’s green earth fill my little southern heart with as much delight and ... an American train and take in the natural splendor you can find all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... cheat time, and how everything since then has melted into an ... together and passing faster and faster, like sand in an hourglass falling, a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to break my blogger drought (rip sophomore year) and b) I'm working on a really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  With my classes ending on Wednesday and finals starting the following ... preregistered for IAP and Spring Term classes, started discussing new research plans for the future, and also will be hitting the 50% point in my book

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard ... phone service, and no problem sets. I went to Powell's, brought my old

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... entrance and exit gates. Within the plaza itself, paint-peeled buildings ... with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  and their airplanes stuffed into a single Cessna hangar. There's the ... airplanes. One-propeller airplanes and two-propeller airplanes. Big, long, tubular airplanes and boxy nugget-shaped airplanes. Airplanes with two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and temperatures and conditions rise and fall. For me, summer and fall mean rock

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• 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