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

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your ... badly sprained and a small bone in your foot was broken. Courtesy of a ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... from campus to beaches and shipyards, and liveblogged from the depths of ... cherishes the identities built into the squares and streets of Boston, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  've been working on a lot of publications and will probably be on around half ... I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... , and I'm still traumatized from the very short period of time in which I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  , appealing is subjective and ultimately depends on the values of the maker and ... on a number of factors, and the capability of one is relative to the ... ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of ... stayed up until 4 AM working on an 8.022 pset, and thought it was hilarious ... -- so, girls, come on an overnight so you can stay with me and stare at my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  averaged 2-4 hours of sleep after that until finals week. Then I ran away and ... break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... class called the "Nuts and Bolts of Engineering" in case I, y'know, decide

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  on behalf of the Boston Parks and Rec."]Santa[/annotation] were brought ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount ... responsible for the bad quality on half of these pictures. Blame the tech, not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... with my college experience, and part of me has a lot of regret about the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  ). Even though Elgin is northwest of Chicago (and most northsiders are Cubs ... surprisingly, then, my brother and I became White Sox fans too. Of course, I ... lot of special memories at both the Old Comiskey Park and the newer U

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  ”, and not on the only aspect of my academic life I could actually control ... on your Little Rectangle, and ignoring all of the other rectangles you ... try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  pending financial aid appeal (at MIT or one of your other choices), and you ... For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the road with admissions officers from Yale and Brown meeting with students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  . The last year was one of the most intense, incredible, challenging and ... strange. It's wonderful. It's hard. It took the shape of what I expected and ... and timbre of that emotion beyond the swooning naiveté of my staff days

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  of precedent allowing colleges and universities to consider race as one ... importance of diversity to our nation’s success in the global economy; and (3 ... depend on the availability of a diverse cross-section of talented graduates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  one year. And the chances increase as time goes on, as pieces are added ... beginning next week. Any winnings not collected by the end of the week are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  , clever new interpretations, and a great deal of humor, and Midsummer Night ... blend together and influence one another. First, there is the love plot of the nobles, which focuses on four young ladies and gentlemen who quickly

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an ... Montreal:   And here are some shots of the biodome

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  on math and science because it was one of those all-girls schools. Yes ... of any glass ceiling; my future looked more like an open sunroof. My ... got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  at home. I remember being completely out of place, and wondering why ... , timing, so on and so forth. Then, on the day of, we got up at 7 AM to make ... would go home, and slowly, but surely, the house would empty again

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  to visit me and we went to see a semifinal match of the Legg Mason ... (all levels), men's and women's varsity teams, as well as plenty of ... 'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005