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• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  the feeling of snow on the ground, the feeling of being free and at home ... true of all things. And, if not, at the very least, this break has been ... fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  kicker can aim at the far left side or far right side of the goal, and the ... in awe at how skilled professional athletes are, and another part of me ... and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... of feels like a fall from grace to move from being a token-woman-who-is-good-at ... extraordinarily rough for me, and at the beginning of this semester, i spent so much

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high ... constant hum of insects at any time of the day or night, so perpetual that ... than flies. Others are the size of bats. Many are experts at camouflage

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... get some exercise. I was horrified at how quickly I became out of breath ... My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . Except at MIT, it's a waterfall of knowledge. As I said last entry, I won ... pset, woke up for no reason at 6 AM, and finished the rest of it in under

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  compensate for the lack of Oreo cookies at Aldi by substituting smashed-up Twix ... -Bonn airport at 10:15 AM, head out for Philadelphia by way of Frankfurt on my ... . Probably fail at that goal. Wednesday -- First day of classes! Thursday

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

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) at MIT. While at CPW I figured out which dorm I

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of ... i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in ... 've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  were still going strong as time ran out at the end of the fourth round ... happy with how they delegated roles at the very beginning of the exercise ... ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  on the tip of my tongue at the time. That was an absolutely stupid thing of me to do, but I guess it reflects the state of my mind at that ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  lecture at MIT (9.65, Cognitive Processes), expecting the Lightning Bolt of ... around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... 't actually that funny at the time. Sorry, Dustin.) The point is that they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  an hour long car ride back home for dinner at McMenamins. If you ... double bacon, two apple ciders, tater tots, and an extra order of fries ... couch. There's not a lot like flopping on the couch at home after a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  [edited 05/14 after first posted at 2 AM; corrected by Clara '10 ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  MIT 2016 Surprise! Midnight servings of ice cream at HackMIT 2016 Hack ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... for Malgorzata and Melanie. We gathered at a restaurant that specializes

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011