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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  to MIT, I am sad to report that the habit has ceased and I no longer ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... the Cambridge Half Marathon, but was no longer able to run it, so she

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  minutes across campus to the [annotation note = "the lesser-known younger brother of the Zesiger Fitness Center"] Alumni Wang Fitness Center [/annotation] in my Crocs, pool towel in hand, for my PE class. The locker rooms

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year ... from the bubble to glimpse the wider world and plot real moves. And ... the spiritual opposite of summer - instead of escaping, it's about

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It's 9:05 am. The sunlight subtly and softly trickles into the room just like it did all those episodes ago in the season premiere. However, this time the room isn't a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New ... Recreation on Netflix. This week, however, the rewatching was put on pause so I ... possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall is the best? Campus might have a general consensus. But tbh there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... the same thing I am and it's both humbled me and empowered me. My post "The Pretender" reached 6,000 views in less than a month and has been

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  A couple weekends ago, the average age on campus suspiciously ... flooded the Student Center and Infinite. I'd almost forgotten what a pre-teen looked like until I saw them navigating the cooridors and poking around

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... worried about flooding (and hosage); meanwhile they withered in the cruel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking in the long awaited spring sun streaming through the windshield and heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  first borns. The topic in question? Bathrooms. Apparently bathrooms are a ... for all the dorm bathrooms (which I'll leave to blog readers to describe in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  started again! As promised: the continuation - 51. Stitch is wildly ... Japanese - is also very popular here. The title song is playing nonstop in ... 　（電車、でんしゃ）) accidents that happen when the train collides with a person and causes death

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  the contrary, I've had a stupendously excellent weekend while my sheets ... entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... lengthy and fairly serious thread that had developed overnight about The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... Mario Brothers mural that plays the game's theme song when you touch it

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  ’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW, you know that didn’t work out. The Icebreaker and CPW Festival were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that ... reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006