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Does MIT offer club sports?
have numerous accomplishments and aim to help each student improve in ... welcome. Please check out each club’s individual website for more details.
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Blog / Extracurriculars
Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.
of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I ... , college websites, read everything you can. Take everything into account. I ... website. Another reason was this magical thing called "Web 2.0." Web 2 -
Blog / Admissions
Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too
about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... , because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I ... world might actually turn out to be okay after all. In March I go -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.
[by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the ... musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I -
Blog / Admissions
CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh
the most fun I've had in literal weeks. I'm so grateful that I've had ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much ... yunglings is 10/10 would recommend When there were no more questions, I just -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D
As I mentioned in[annotation note="which was uhhh a while ago oops ... some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about ... favorite ornament is the purplish one in the back - I thought I was coloring -
Blog / Academics & Research
seattle (again) home and away
time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i -
Blog / Events
Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.
I just came back from watching MIThenge, a celestial phenomenon ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... , along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM -
Blog / Academics & Research
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision
what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in ... anything I would want to do in the public sector would be related to public ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my -
Blog / How to Human
Be Social awkward and anxious
girlfriends and just walk into that party and own it because I would be in my ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly -
Blog / Academics & Research
major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?
compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... much in that position. But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just ... … Before starting sophomore year, I knew very well that MechE probably would -
Blog / MIT Life
Talking to Strangers
creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions
, I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television, sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit ... skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Choose my Halloween Costume!
have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... 'd SO be Veronica Mars if I thought anyone would get it). Ready....go! -
Blog / MIT Life
Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?
answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... ELEFANTES! Love you, Bryan Now back in the 90s, I used to have to rely on -
Blog / How to Human
re-orienting REX et al.
represent them. I would come back every day and hang around in the lounge ... dear past me, I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and -
Blog / Events
BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…
the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... some magic, and eventually we had the cookies in the oven. I rushed over -
Blog / Challenges
then and now a reflection on the very bad
why she would need to come to school in these last couple of weeks." I ... intentions. I never thought a girl like me would end up at MIT, let alone in ... I would have missed out on if I didn't chicken out that weekend in -
Blog / About Decisions
Finding Your Match and why it matters
and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... I was stronger in the humanities and social sciences than in STEM, so -
Blog / MIT Life
people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall
; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all to say that at some point in last night's studying, around 3 AM, I went ... ; and in that moment I thought to myself that if my life were a movie that