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  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  are [annotation note="34, in fact"]a ton[/annotation] of beautiful islands located off the harbor. You can kayak between them, as students in ... ferry leaves at 5, so I'm not sure why anyone would want to spend only an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  MIT's campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All ... building route sequence would be 7, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 14. If you're not an MIT ... enough time here, you'd know exactly what that route looks like. In

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  about it before- some of you have even lived it yourselves. In addition to ... , an imposter syndrome so strong and unavoidable that it’s impossible to ... through if it were not for this queen. It was like having a mwakenya (cheat

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  went to a Canadian school in Jamaica for a couple of years. Everyone ... outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep ... fruit. At breakfast, we met Feyi (a young woman from San Francisco) and an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... attended MIT in many, many years. Not many apply, but when they do, even if ... , while others simply do not." There are a lot of questions in there, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  -Germany Global Teaching Labs Program As I write this post, I am sitting in the teacher ... teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for ... like an old crow looks back on the time that has flown by. On my first

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  username. time passes. in the fall, two new expansions for spirit island ... 've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not ... in this post is kinda uncomfortable lol"]cj.[/annotation] i soon came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  spot for the summer, the friendly neighborhood Starbucks. I was in for a ... sitting for more than 2 minutes. But those who could stand to talk to me for an entire 5 minutes usually had pretty strong opinions about the whole

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  . Although, there aren’t any slated for this fall, there is a spartan race in ... a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  time, i've never actually seen an improv show in person, just read about ... we'd even be explorers in an unfamiliar land, scouting the territory ... reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  trained in Narcan administration and passed the exam for the session. After ... , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  couches in inconspicuous locations. Mine was right next to an elevator, so I ... one of your French girls in baggy pajamas. Then we eventually slept for ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  breaks loose, an alter-ego PANIC MODE version of my brain steps in. "Don ... magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake ... in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  's distracting me from 2.004 studying). Here's how it started, with an e-mail to me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  need to happen before an application is ready for review. It takes a lot ... don't worry. In the comments for this entry, I hope you'll give some ... sent before the deadline? And am I in trouble? Let's take the last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American ... biologist. “Oh no, an error in measurement,” the physicist sighed. “If exactly ... in an email: I've definitely felt like doing this before....

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... ’s always a lot of light coming in, and if I want to space out for a little ... ://listart.mit.edu/public_art for virtual tours and more information on the individual pieces

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  good fit for me..it has a lot of opportunities that I very much wanted in ... for you. I'm very glad that in MIT I found my right match. Another ... , and in turn the expectation is that I will pay for my children

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26-100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... the dinosaurs). After fighting two world wars over it, in 1946, the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011