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  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... play (Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca), and a novel (Leaving ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... got moved to Friday? So essentially all I had to do was study for my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of ... to register for PBIE happens to be June 28th; I happened to be making

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students ... " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human ... undergraduates because it allows a chance for young students to get research under

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... ="perhaps somewhat naively though I think it was for the best"] I[/annotation] stopped ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  ’d already made a Courseroad for 6-9.) I became a stereotypical CS student. I coded websites and Discord bots for fun and would include C++ when asked ... I’d previously had for the subject. It was partly due to my disliking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... mind. But there is no checklist for an essay. An essay should not serve ... and socialize and grow and cry there for the next four-ish years. Don

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  ones we looked for that day. Alan: Anyways, we played connect ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to ... exploring it for four years. CJ: If by exploring you mean “living on campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  It's my favorite time of year for a variety of reasons. My birthday ... RELEASES SPOTIFY WRAPPED!!! For those of you who've been following the blogs ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  rip apart? and play with? yes please! We stayed there for a long time ... , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video ... another blog entry. I saw an ad on Facebook for the "Livescribe Campus Rep

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... I came up with bucket list items for my first metal fest: crowdsurf ... , a wave of hand-horn symbols rose from the crowd. I understood for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... bags to my place tomorrow. My Molchat Doma shirt had been worn for over ... only my Molchat Doma shirt, which at this point had been worn for over

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  I did this for my classes last semester, and it was pretty tragic, so ... Course 6 classes instead. Honestly really excited for this class since ... better than Spanish 3 for all those classes, but no! I took a placement

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... wrestling with many new abstract concepts in my head for long periods of time ... school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors ... Professor Minicozzi often played the role of both a math professor and a ... modern Chinese. I’m scared for my life (and my grade) but also looking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... , we played in the waterfall. I scooted on my butt over the rocks ... , Jennifer peed for the first time in something like 24 hours (seriously.) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006