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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  supposed to, and there are even some people that already *know* how to ski or ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... going to happen? Who are we opening registration to? How are things going ... '22, were teaching How to Stay Awake in a Classical Music Concert. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  you how to fix something or just hang out. The rear rack on my bike ... internationally. BNB runs a bike shop and teaches kids how to fix bikes so they have ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  us do basic unit conversions (i.e. minutes to hours) to find how long ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take ... by negative one.” Me: “Yes! Exactly.” Senior: “I don’t know how to do ... whose mom was murdered last summer. I learn how to be patient, how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... here, you can figure out how to thrive most anywhere. this is not an ... potential lover to a potential college, we have all felt rejection. How you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... . I learned how to float, on my chest and on my back, with the floater ... pool come back to me, the end-story of me liking how the water felt and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  exactly why it’s important to know about depression, and how to live with or ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... holds my traumatic adjustment phase. Determination to push myself further

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  learning the [annotation note="how long to cook a steak, what spices work well for different styles of cuisine, how to utilize different techniques ... function of the seasonings you chose, so this is going to depend on how you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... joined Design/Build/Fly, learning how to solder, fabricate airplanes, and read assembly code. I got better at building things. I learned how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... . Rereading the book has become a means to measure how I’ve grown as a person—similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  figured out how to successfully achieve multiple "food systems" goals ... staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how ... strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  meet again, but under what circumstances? How long will we be able to ... line goes "how lucky am I to have something which makes saying goodbye so hard." How lucky am I to have people who make saying goodbye so hard. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... told him how grateful I was. In response, he sent the following meme to ... year, and my new plans are sketching how I'm going to build a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  to MIT for a science research camp, and I remember hearing about how ... did. But how much of that is MIT? Or is it just me choosing to be a part ... make choices about how their living group operated, the input we got to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023