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  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  and enriching; it opens you up to experiences and relationships and ... fluent Spanish and is looking to practice English. You can then meet up on ... meeting up on Saturday mornings in local cafes to chat in Spanish. Getting

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  to keep up the first week. This semester, I'm taking 6.046, 6.810, 7 ... , more meetings, this and that, cancelling my storage contract, setting up ... psets started to pile up: 3 for 6.046, 1 for 7.012, daily assignments for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  services such as S^3 or MIT Mental Health. You matter. You are not taking up ... . There is a range of things freshmen can do on campus—don’t give up hope ... and neighbors into your life. Before you catch up on a popular TV show

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  dock locks. - I woke up at 8:55am and got to my 9am class. - The food ... your boundaries and try so many new things. I've picked up so many ... . + People are up at all hours; if you're bored, there's always someone to do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  of people that show up to our events. For popular events (popular ... , dress up, and treat ourselves to a day off-campus exploring downtown ... though midterms were piling up on the horizon, we decided to schedule

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  exams (four horrible Saturdays during which I gave up four hours of my ... . I sometimes doubled up on math, I think, because it had more chapters ... silly thermometers. Watching it fill up is just really motivating somehow

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  morning and tennis practice from 5-7pm, I usually end up taking the ... one, I would sometimes go to Trader Joe’s to pick up some oatmeal, fruit ... Market to stock up on food in case I couldn’t get out during the blizzard

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  explain a lot about how we ended up with MIT being MIT as we know it today ... ), and this Lydia person ended up putting it on the internet. That was neat ... to pay up to $50 for the processing of this request. Please inform me

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 / 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