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  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  technical setting, but it amazes me to see how the lessons have reached into ... have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a ... students, sometimes it’s “I Have Truly Found Paradise.” Sometimes, it’s “I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  exactly how and why everything got done, what it took to stop bad ideas, and ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... world. I remember thinking about how old college students seemed all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the ... lot of it. =) This schedule was on the wall near the front entrance of Burton Conner. I'm disproportionately proud of that arrow. I think it's so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... Fest, organized by Madhouse Motors every spring. I’d heard of it from ... cybersecurity tech at an accident law firm. I told her that it got me through a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

   on-site with a sense of magical excitement. The author himself would sign it ... shirt, sleeves pulled up, with a long scarf artistically draped over the ... how many more stories could be born if someone transcribed his responses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  rather than attending it. I’ve had long talks with graphic designers ... though of how everything around us was “designed.” I took 2 ... . Design is applied art. It is Design Museum Boston’s goal to show

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  ! 1. It is not a test. I'll tell you how much we ECs know about you as ... to relax in #1, it does help if you do a bit of pondering before your ... Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for ... long MLK weekend each January, and begin bashing their collective skulls

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over ... that he missed driving terribly. So, not too long ago he bought a used

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008