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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  students for private lessons with professional musicians). There are many ... Halloween costumes and skate on the campus ice rink for free (blog here). This ... ! Eat Pizza! Skate on Ice (for FREE)! Cookie Decorating! Pumpkin Carving

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  Over the past few months, I have become obsessed with crochet ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  . Sign up for the reuse and free-food mailing lists. Go to Choose to Reuse ... to experts with years of experience. It was inspiring and freeing ... with the OME. You could do Tech Callers and call alumni for donations

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  bought a Coke, and I asked for ice. Armed with the skate, and the ice, we ... Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during ... graduate, which they can (a) keep with them as they go through their four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  had to advocate my vision for the play and inspire the other designers ... plus additional hours for emailing logistics and design meetings on top of rehearsal. Balancing a play on top of everything else has been

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... only lost one. Now, let me walk you through the play-by-play for how our ... Vincent. With a nice 3-1 win, we smoothly advance to the next round.  Round

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

   Gershwin's Summertime for this jam session, with the audience choir singing chords in the ... … special surprise… for us that day. I will say nothing more.” I was very ... surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their ... .... ...and she has become intimately familiar with the different stresses

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the ... complexin...with fruit flies." In her free time, she can be found baking ... the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  MIT ESG is a popular program for first-year undergraduates. With fun ... equipping one of the members with six microphones for a fictional “quest” to ... , "playing" with a fundamental concept in materials science. PHeT and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  arrived at the PlaySentations 2 hours early so that I could practice with my ... for milk and cookies. I stayed behind and chatted with my group and some ... busily, people running around in lab coats with clip boards, and caution

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  engineering for that much. I got some immediate responses saying that the professors were looking for more experienced undergrads or that their lab was ... perfused with different media. Eventually, the goal is to be able to more

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  . -Discover Mech. Engineering concluded with a Battle Royale of home-made soccer-playing ... most of the later rounds cheering for the teams that had shown the ... also consumed my remaining free time for breakfast. To the unending

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  themes in fun’s writing is dealing with fame and its entailments. this is ... studying in college in a big country, with my graduating friends flying to all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  with music and fun, and it raises money for the Elizabeth Glaser ... studying in the library for 20 hours straight (with your signature "I've been ... a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... ) takes the proverbial cake for hopscotching around my criteria for likable

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  another semester I’ll have to take it with class C which is an estimated 20 ... major requirements you have and have not completed; handy for making sure ... chats with [annotation note="yes i know that i'm technically an

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  this summer, i found myself with *free time*. it wasn't quite as much free time as you might expect with a 9-6 job schedule since i was always ... 's not free though"]assets for a game![/annotation]. it's been on my list

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So ... for 8.01 and 3.091. By 2am, I call it quits. Still no sign of a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015