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  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  .  As a side note, in order to address my homework, I’ve developed ... until your computer dies, and then you get to go home. It works better the ... realized that I really had to lock in for 8.01.  At the end of the class

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... -festooned establishment in Uptown Manhattan that pampers to the effete relaxations of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... realized that if i tried to chime in and say what everyone was saying... i ... at the same time i struggle to put my experiences out in the world for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  get the first half down. We practiced in a courtyard with two giant ... in the drill, and then taking large bows. I tried to remember slow ... beavers all. And when we get together, We do the beaver call. e to the u, du

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

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to ... tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... sometimes. In this case, some utility workers decided to mark an underground

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ... think I’m crazy.   “I’ll get a UROP to have something to do.” But ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse ... alike ran over to watch. Really, though? Fighting in an airport terminal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  math that led to satisfying conclusions. In other words, all the things I ... -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in ... the shape of the façade. In the month that I spent there, I got to see

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  *bassoonist* for advice on what size cup to get. We laughed in our failure ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  enough to get around Rome for 2 days this spring.... Anyway, like all good ... ourselves to see how many words we recognized in each one. Then she'd hand out ... pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs

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

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in ... easily study in my room, the space I specifically cultivated to be ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  HackMIT. I found out about it back in August and wanted to sign up ever since. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to participate in it this year because ... to Kresge to get a peek inside. However, it seemed as though many other

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  very easy to talk to people, make connections, and work together to get ... , and intuitive, inherent beauty. Or, to put it in the words of ... [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in ... philippines is in the tropics, so it's hot. the coldest it gets in my city is 20 ... many to work abroad. the title, walang natira, means "nothing left". in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that ... 's all of the bags I have... for now. But I'm always trying to get that bag ... floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  'm going to waste my entire sophomore spring cj: pls vincent: but in ... opponent's cards in strength. and some cards allow you to draw more cards, so ... 've been having comes from "but aren't i in school to learn? to prepare for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  filled-out completion form. I turned in both to the HASS office, and felt a ... got to MIT, I was pre-med, and planning to double-major in Course 8 and ... , and get to know each other. The VP and I have been working together for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours upon hours of planning and effort to get the programs running this far

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  -packaged Indian food and high fiber cereal at 3 AM in the morning, and I survive to ... Killian on the last day of orientation in order to be photographed and ... friends in New House at 11 PM to sprint past Dorm Row, down the Infinite

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your arteries and blue in your veins. It's akin to a "choose your own adventure ... This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014