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• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  ’s right, MIT requires you to graduate with a strong mind and body, while ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and ... there's going to be a lot of talk about this over the next few months

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall ... close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not ... morning I went to Philly schools, then drove to Delaware... Went to one

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  favor, okay? You have to remind me to enter the PE Lottery, which starts tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes ... too high for me to muster. Don't you forget to enter it either, Class of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... 'll probably miss you, and you're excited because the airport you're going to has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The ... route: Leg 1 (Checkpoint High Tea) London to Prague We polish of our ... hit the mainland we drive as fast as possible to escape the flat parts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... and the liver to promote the metabolism of fatty acids and glucose, as ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green ... coder who always reads this blog and used to leave me vaguely snarky

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  Sorry to have been ignoring my poor blog, folks! Here's my excuse... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why ... out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her ... decided to take a few hours of desk service to lighten Erica's load. During

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... . I was lucky enough to be assigned to my first choice advising seminar

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  applying? Can I send any?" Yes. We're happy to accept extra materials if you ... since childhood I have been dreaming to go to MIT ..in fact go only to MIT ... an essay. But I have heard that MIT doesn't like to recieve extra

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... /Baker tradition: the piano drop. According to The Tech, "The piano drop was first ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  were newly admitted to MIT get to visit the campus and experience student culture up close, from exploring dorm culture to experiencing real and ... . You can also upvote other people’s questions if you really want to see

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were ... ’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power has been devoted to “psets” and “midterms” and not Silly Girl Time, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  this blogpost was meant to be something else since i've been frankly living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... and then since i think it's healthy to share latest fixations, so i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know where each path will go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021