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• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  hardly able to walk down the stairs. But by the end of the semester, our ... ensuring that you will not drown if your get knocked into the ocean while ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  the National Poetry Slam! While it's generally difficult to get off campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I ... night the Cantab Lounge hosts an Open Mic followed by a Featured Poet and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  publication-quality data by Christmas so we can hopefully get published by the ... finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal ... games to cheer for this week (one was tonight). I went straight from the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  finally managed to get to the point where the wireless card detected a ... copy of the How To GAMIT (How to Get Around MIT) on the first floor of ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive immersion that allows you to take the second level during the spring semester ... January -- the intermediate period between winter break and the spring

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  my freshman year. The next morning, I walked to MIT Medical to get ... I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South ... ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... number 4: This is where it starts to get really good. I'm hoping the MIT ... recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  opportunities to hang out by the river and actually get to know the city. I spent ... people choose to get jobs at companies over the summer, for several reasons ... situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a ... will be an exciting month. By now, I've read my first folders of the ... downstairs to the Records Office, sure enough, there they were working to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for ... advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  that matter. By nature of the sport in the US, I get no funding ... get to and from the hotel and rink and feed myself. I had sprained my ... , training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that

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

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ... like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ...  a cappella. Of course, the concert's not limited to just singing, because who

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... , and needless to sasy the project wasn't all about typesetting some ... spent constantly thinking about the design, I managed to produce my final

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... intimidated by the to-do list. With that said, I did not apply Early Action to ... to pursue, I brought MIT into the picture. And since getting here

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Get a discount on Bose products Visit Singing Beach at Manchester-by-the ... started the day by running (1) and (2). (2) brought us to the Museum of ... Daniel would start by taking a class, because he didn't want the game to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  personally but instead only get to know you by what you and others write about ... Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a ... to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in Boston by T. I used to have this problem in the city -- I had never had to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  wanted it, but mine turned out huge. By that I mean, we built it to the ... painted the same colors. Yuki wanted to know why I was getting rid of the ... , complete with a "Chaplain" duck (handed out to new students by the chaplain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  "]anthropology class[/annotation] until the following Monday. I didn't get a chance to ... to get supplies for the trip. However, I also didn't want to be writing it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022