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  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  the count, it's not that hard to follow. By the end of the 1 hour lesson, we had a routine together (It also doubled as a pretty good workout as ... 2.5 hours long, but we'll be learning two dances. The American Waltz

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... , Father, it has been two years since our last mystery hunt" (the Hunt

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  retrospect. There were lots of nice things about it, but the activation energy ... Boston, there's no wonder in it anymore. I grew up near by, and the city just [annotation note="it is, in reality, physically a very small city as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  what Portland is like, or how it has shaped me. In retrospect, the ... It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... 's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... performance within a group. Now I understand how professors feel. I couldn’t believe how such a diverse group of students had one, clear piece of advice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="211"] Oh, how innocent it looks ... observed how they’d share food, even if it meant going hungry themselves. And ... Hi. I’m Andi. I’m twenty years old and already a pigeon addict. It

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  few interesting observations about this country: -It is a very long ... through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and ... approach to hamentashen should be a bit interesting. How does a single cell ... "Sniviling" and "Snivility" and how it's a great thing to accuse your opponent

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  sit together on my mom's desk at work. Obviously it proves that her ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches ... air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack ... how to talk to people... or into microphones..."), or would they see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  ; It was incredible to hear how 15 different MIT students interpreted the ... As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the photos from the speech competition, it’s clear that we were fully invested

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  . Spooky how fast time is flying by. I'm at this point where I don't want it ... a long, long time. 🏖[/caption]   Before I knew it, it was time ... concentration. It was finally the end of a long week. It felt like a huge burden

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  . Which honestly probably says a lot about MIT more than it does me. But I ... As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  . No, it's not MIT's outstanding academics, its research opportunities, its philanthropy, its architecture, or its tuition that strikes fear ... . "Pistol?" Pistol, as in guns. That's right, you may not know it, but buried

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  content with it. I constantly monitored the comments. How many people were reading my posts? How were they responding to it? Was the post successful ... it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... day, it's the main artery for foot traffic among academic buildings, but ... really good for your brain. Studies have shown that it's good for your

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  was to canvass everything MIT does to support makers on its campus, from ... joint letter to President Obama from more than 150 colleges describing how ... letter from its President Rafael Reif enclosing a white paper coauthored by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  then it does all the work while we're off not being on the computer. Ok ... " but had never seen it. I knew MIT students had e-mail accounts but who ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  this and how angry it makes me that someone as beautiful and as talented ... found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it ... do it. How I couldn't climb into the back of my grandpa's pickup truck

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022