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• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  table, with toilets for seating and live lizards in the glass table ... on the Beijing streets. I was drawn to the "indie music" sign, but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  many murals on campus. :) I'd also like to give a quick shout out to ... holding one of its many live-action roleplaying games over Halloween weekend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of ... alive, relatively speaking, but also, that MIT students live in the city

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  sleet. And then it started to rain. And then, because the snow on the ... , if you live anywhere in the area of this crazy "winter" (and I use that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  twelve credits), plus I got to live on-campus (which I couldn't do without ... professor once a week to discuss the material one-on-one. I'm hoping this will ... date back so I don't spend my senior year on Zoom. I wanted to take some

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  water on my laptop. it died instantly; the technicians at the [annotation ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for ... behind for other residents. this was the first sticker i put on my laptop

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions ... up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... Juice is amazing, my dog's sitting on my left foot...") and not in any way ... 'll definitely keep you all posted on what goes on from here on out. But first, a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his ... 've already compressed your life into four lines on a piece of paper and sent it ... freshman on pass/no record is flippantly thrown around whenever work is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  Carolina (and living on the beach). Robin '08 is doing an engineering ... . Since nobody on the squad responds to emails, I got four five responses out of the ~20 cheerleaders on the squad. I think I'll just list what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... willingness to handle failure Hands-on creativity Intensity, curiosity, and ... your SAT scores. I won’t touch on it again. You shouldn’t need to touch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  've noticed that my outlook on things has changed dramatically. It can be ... sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I ... I had my heart set on. There isn't quite an experience that could ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  training. This post is about that. If you follow MIT Student Life on ... greatness. We reported to the sailing pavilion at 5:30 am on Saturday ... planes on it. (^^Photocredz to Julia C. '20!!) Basically, our schedule

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  -frosh, at the CPW of 2012. My host was a rower on the men’s lightweight team ... races on the Charles River that weekend, and admired the eight rowers in ... of practice, a bunch of novices crowded around a bench swing on the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  have to leave the house to carpe diem. Help make MIT a better place ... weren't running regularly due to the 3 ft tall piles of snow on Commonwealth that were taking up 2 car lanes. I dropped my backpack on the stairs

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  -hour activities on Fridays that give GELs hands-on experience in our “Capabilities ... say that the GEL 2s devote at least ten hours a week to help plan each ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on

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

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  Patriot’s Day on Monday (can anyone say “Boston Marathon” ... so I still had class on Tuesday afternoon.) I think every MIT student has an intense love-hate relationship with four-day weekends. On one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit's "grind culture" or "questionable mental health". mit is hard. some people ... 't help making the decision. it's likely you have all the info you already

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022