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  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... turns out, for the rest of your life, too.     I'm not sure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... gendered words to refer to people for a very very long time, and it’s just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Antiquarian Book Fair, and flyers for future Boston adventures. Then we headed to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... lead the Keynote. Messud is famous for her New York Times-bestselling The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... Foods as being too expensive for college students. However, you can shop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you ... ’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  emails. For all of you trying to get your Regular Action application in by ... ; For RA students What is the application deadline? The deadline is ... interview for the near future, you are all set. Don’t worry if your

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions ... Every Day lift or run practice handstands write something not for yourself ... for a workshop hosted by the Urban Metabolism Group, within which I have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... student--that's what the memorial was for. Caroline assembled lanterns to ... going into any specific detail, I'll say that this year has, for me

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For ... dusty piano for an impromptu concert. On special occasions, the projector

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... for Valentine’s Day, we watched a documentary for more on nuclear ... Beat, a set of lighted attachments for guided drum learning - video here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  ’t say for sure when the Plague started, but I remember clearly the day it ... emails to professors: “I have been ill for quite some time now, and it is incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... was away for much of my internship, I was handed a large deal of ... segments, which are then robotically assembled in space.  For my project I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a ... London. I don't really want The Internet to know my address, so for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me now... Some things are definitely the same - for instance, I wrote this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes it took for my plane to arrive, board, depart, and probably get to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop ... Panama. I remember pretty much none of it (including take-off) except for the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not ... were on crutches for weeks, thanks to a broken big toe. Senior year ... in a few minutes (for those last two PE Points!) and the swimming pool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013