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• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  , and you make a good one--to try. You actually can be interested in the ...  (or, getting addicted to success) Soon you're not so special, and that's fine ... harder. It's an easy spiral to go down, and one you get tunnel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  another Laura moved onto the floor over a year ago, I've been trying to get ... found the slice of cake in the kitchen the next morning, and decided to ... of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial ... job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... assume were red highlights. I didn't stick around long enough to get an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  less productive; the joy in just getting to spend time with friends, even ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... to say, it was completely ridiculous in a way that could only ever happen at MIT. In addition to helping out with a bunch of traditional pen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in ... do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  opportunity to take a graduate-level course in education (I had many graduate ... 're going to crossreg than actually do, mostly because MIT's offerings in the ... Boston's 50+ universities get together. Also, I'll get to answering more of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... conveniently landed on my last day in Kansas and I was able to visit my old team

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... personal identity in an MIT class, in pairs, and a classmate comes up to me ... that gender identity is important to me. He begins to explain in detail

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in ... cone next to the felled fire hydrant, like a battlefield cross. Rest in ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  didn't get to go to any when I was in high school, this was actually my ... blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... not after I made sure we had a map, because it's really easy to get lost

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... be worth showing up early to get the form signed. The first thing I ... I've been to. The third thing I noticed: everyone in the room seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... and went to visit friends at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. I met ... about. Afterwards, I went to my favorite restaurant in Harlem, Manna

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... am just like everyone else. "You also like to be in control a lot of ... consequences? No, I do not want to play chess. "You have to get used to losing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did ... cool to be done with non-applied math (*sigh of relief*). In terms of ... energetic projects. Here, it kind of gets in the way of me having the work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Prakash, getting in some last-minute shopping, and preparing to leave. My ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... (technically not during IAP) was the chance to celebrate New Year's Eve in London

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011