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  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  . Well, Sang’s Canadian now. But he grew up and went to university in South ... ’t have any plans for the weekend while Sang had his weekend all set up with ... area where we were staying, so he set me up to stay at the Ritz Carlton

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a ... , and elbow my way through the hall and up the stairs to my first ... want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  my great disappointment I was put on the build team. I picked up a saw ... an entire post to itself. In a nutshell: our team was made up of kids ... up so fast that it almost sailed off my neck. "...the Entrepreneurship

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed ... organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports ... other things full of ideas that tend to keep me up thinking. Few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... Montana. After we met up with Rob Williamson of Brown - an alum, and, like ... up for this session - which, while small, was still twice what had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up ... proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... stayed up the remainder of the night playing backgammon, eating kebabs, and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  really hard to refine my Japanese ability (so I can keep up with the ... IAP. I just renewed my passport last April, and I've filled up about 1 ... -straight-on-the-subway-with-two-strangers-beside-you," the "let's-take-a-nap-while-waiting-for-the-train-to-arrive-and-wake-up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  for getting lunch, catching up on email, or working on a p-set. I mostly ... found to be unclear during lecture, bringing up an interesting additional ... up having an awesome interview with Eric Lander - who basically runs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... ?" "You're RIGHT! THAT HAS TO BE IT!" [Spend 20 minutes looking up Latin ... that particular puzzle up, but that's not to say it was unrealistic. Many

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  , but nonetheless ended up figuring out that the theme was basically a ... , and it was up to us to crack the case - which we could do only by ... finishing up with research, I fairly ran over to Simmons Hall, where our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  the last group to board the plane. When my group was called, I stood up ... what his FPOP was (Pre-Health), where he was from (Decatur, he drove up ... . Coincidentally, the room I was placed in (I later moved up to the 8th floor in C

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , runner. I signed up for running mainly because I was not coordinated enough ... where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  end up sad than anything else. But, if you aim at being, on net, a ... quite imagined. I've picked up skills I didn't think I'd ever learn; last ... in three days as an emergency back-up for[annotation note="every year

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... ."]Listener[/annotation] (which I ended up dropping pretty early on), working >1 jobs and ... at a pace faster than I could keep up with but the professor was clear

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

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  for your enjoyment. 6:30 AM I wake up at an ungodly early hour. Usually, I’ll get up around 8:30 – 9 AM, but today, I have some urgent tasks ... . I get up at 8:30, pack my [annotation note="three apricots and the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up ... , and I really enjoy just getting up on a Saturday morning and doing as ... 's coming up soon, which is writing a fully fleshed out interactive narrative

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  end up telling someone, my friend had replied, "Who do you think you are? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot ... of phony phone calls from people who had never hit me up before. A lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  this woman holding up three large medals and thought to myself "I want ... and pull it off. I started doing my research. I looked up the Goofy ... all the stars start glowing and lighting up. Have I mentioned

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ...  attack. It picked up on my bad procrastination habits too. I can't say I ... . Hooray open source! I ended up with a file that was a little under a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  state fitness tests (underweight; zero push-ups; zero squats; zero sit-ups ... ago when on weeknights I would make a lava cake and he would pull up ... competitions we mostly played Black Ops 2 in his living room and blew up MOSFETs

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024