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• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the fear. it's natural, it's instinctive, it's thinking that tensing up the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  of paint brush was used. Fun stuff. But, the assignment and write-up ... my write-up and cleaning up my code. At 20:55, I uploaded my work and ... our last assignment was a reflection write-up. I finished it the next

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I ... hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white ... to borrow anything, or if you don't end up winning the lottery, the

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

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  housemaster, dressed up and handed out papers for us to fill out to determine ... fun. Sabrina S. '16 dressed up as "The Ghost of P-sets Past." This was one of my favorites :) And Valentina C. '16 dressed up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  staying up till 4am each night for the past week.     Ok, I ... woke up and made my way to the Student Center where I met up with my ... ended up not watching the livestream because it would've been too painful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack, since I told him that I would be up late. We staggered around packing my things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop

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

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  . Here are four life lessons from pistol class, typed up (ironically) while ... , Mike verbally directs our warm-up routine: "Remove the magazine. Replace ... with a very familiar soundtrack: my brain knows what's coming up, it has

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... easier and easier to simply start up conversations with strangers while ... and all the extracurriculars I'd signed up for, however, and my newfound

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech ... . When I woke up, I decided that the best way to find out what I really ... . But that doesn't mean I've given up on bio.  I'm interested in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... pretty smoothly until she brought up that she would be waking up for crew ... from class. We know that when we try not to turn on the lights and end up

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons ... hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is you swing these ice axes up over your head, sinking them into an ice

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... , the next, and then - slipped. Crutches flew up, legs flailed, landed ... people instantly jumped up and rushed over to me. They spoke very slowly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  roommate picked up the following gem on sale for 50 cents at the grocery market last Thursday. It passes for a can of Crayons until you pick it up ... ended up doing most of the planning and shopping. Thus, I authoritatively

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... 've set things up so that each class "works" one of the formals and puts in ... worked in the dining room being waiters. I wanted to dress up, so I asked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  hall, but 10-250 is very put-up-with-able. A little over a month ago an ... doesn't make up for the uncomfortable seat. Red Squishy Chair The red ... enjoyable because it is HARDER THAN GRANITE! This is very nearly made up for

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through ... way I take pictures. A close-up: A glamour shot: Jesse explains

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... year at my friend Jacob's house, as I usually do, and caught up with a ... MIT students play. Incidentally, after finishing up the games, we went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  hundred. However, sometimes other friends like Joe '08 let friends come up ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  sorbet is incredibly easy to make. You freeze some cut up fruit, and then ... up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... processor. You open it up. You move the fruit around with a utensil. You close

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the ... Talbot, the lounge next to EC's front desk, and set up the projector. I was ... between five different booths, calling people to show up. Rain. There was a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022