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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike occasionally but the last full mountain I climbed was in 4th grade, when it was ... ), maybe because you can buy a cool stick that they brand at every station on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  wading in a sea of big thoughts and feelings, but I can't individually ... The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... wrong; emotions can be experienced before we think about them, but I think

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each ... incomplete. I've tried to pour every detail I can remember into it, but too ... and rather nightmarish since then. I miss the headspace I was in back

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of ... everywhere (2:16). This dented a few of the cans and made a mess in the uhaul

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  way. The whole experience was so incredible that I still can’t quite ... surprising because I’d previously only ever seen it in East Asia). “Wow!” I ... in kerosene. (I could probably write an entire blog post about how much

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn ... while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses ... fridges in our lab to make room for more samples. i can't help but feel ... minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  ="64141" /] I was the first person in my suite to arrive on campus (I arrived at 8 ... on the walls, which I liked quite a bit. Since we can't use the vast ... reason, took pictures of the bathroom, so since I am spamming photos in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  fatigue in my legs. YOU CAN DO IT, I screamed to myself (in my head, not out ... know that I’ve put in the best that I possibly can today in whatever circumstances I find myself in, then I can rest easy tomorrow knowing that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  -cooked meat Unfortunately I can’t eat this anymore because I am allergic to most ... beans in with the onions. Open and drain a can of red kidney beans. Add ... . Effort: 3 Ingredients: Farina (actually sold in American stores, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  , when I was enrolled in this year’s Silly Robot Extravaganza 4000, I ... wasn’t one of my intentions. However, I can’t say now that I regret it at ... to visit my aunt; my aunt and uncle live in Seattle and I’d never been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it ... that you can't get into college on your own? One value I hold higher ... what I asked in the entry I wrote before - "What is it that makes you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  is nice, but I guess you can't really compete against school pride ... The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... specifications as specified in the competition rules. Students on the MIT DBF team
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... : Come on, anyone? Aw, what the heck. I stayed in Simmons this summer, and ... reasonable size. Back out in the courtyard, I informed the rush chairs that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011