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• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... more convenient in pretty much every way, i prioritize having a "campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  Back in November, after our adventure visiting every stop on the MBTA ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled Boston in Motion which included a large quantity of historical pictures

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The longest recorded kiss took place in New York City ... saw that Mountain Dew commercial that used "Tonight" in it. Looking back ... the famous statue of Freddie Mercury built in Montreux, the site of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... had 530 kids in it, but there was a small core of smart kids who had been together ever since gifted class in fourth grade. My high school was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... you there and not someone who'd rather be in a coed living group ... ?" Michael Borohovski helped me out by answering: "Anonymous (re: waitlist), in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  Back in September, when Shuli introduced the baby bloggers, they ... students attend MIT from each state in the US, so knowing that number is not ... ="myself included"]three South Dakotans,[/annotation] since we had all gotten in from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... makes the "everything else" of our lives mundane and unimportant, in a way

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In ... ="alignnone" width="300"] Sunrise at the harbor in Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Canadian road trip and spent our days chilling in the woods. Here are the ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But ... rides with my friends. We blast tunes, indulge in snacks, and share

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last ... interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning ... /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions ... in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in ... heavily on the upperclassmen in my living group and clubs. i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without ... inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii ... probs have in your room Finally wash that water bottle that’s been in your

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms ... -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... . there are very few women in the game industry and this is still a huge barrier to entry into the industry in the year of our lord 2019 eating the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection: The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for ... use blackboards in Stata! (If you haven't seen it, more background on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019