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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to ... education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate ... they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look ... and stress-reducing to sit down on the floor and put stickers on pages in pretty patterns and inspirational intentions. Making my scrapbook

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  -changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I decided to make a vlog about the little things that make me happy. If you want to see more Inktober things, feel free to scroll through my Twitter

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  it to the front page so more people would see it. None of this makes it ... too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... . The first thing my colleague did when Mail Services called him was to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  choosing only 100 students quite difficult. Already we've had to make ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your body works or how you respond to specific emotions, but most of your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  each one to be really enjoyable and make me have an existential crisis ... cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered, and housing. While doing MISTI, I’ve taken two personal side trips: 1 to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  swim to make it my own. The mental preparation beforehand really helped ... Europe (which I WILL DEFINITELY blog about later!), I have to go straight to exam revision (yes, over here people say revision, not review

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  system that allows you to request to swap from your temp dorm into another ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it ... looking for opportunities to sidequest and ways to make every day fun

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . Your waitlist decision gives you exactly that: the opportunity to be on ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me ... : James "Big Jimmy" Roberts and Howard Brown. My annual donation to MIT ever ... this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  Kevin does them. That just goes to show you that at MIT, your classmates ... PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either ... class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  a college student having to choose your classes. I'll talk more about ... allow me to make or learn music is some fashion or manner writing ... have imposed. This gives you 33 units of room to work with, but to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  focus on these cohorts, my overall mission is still to make MITAdmissions ... update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  ends the 28th at midnight PST. So if you've been waiting to vote, or you've been waiting to tell your friends, family, or family pets to vote, do it ... , iPhones, Treos, whatever.. just be sure to do it before the deadline

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  / : -verb to calm down; to release oneself from inhibition, worry, tension ... as you right now. I'm about to submit the application to my top choice ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  must have taken an incredible amount of work to plan the trip and make ... Pantheon were melted to make cannons and replaced with wood. There were still ... Hi! this is going to be a sorta long blog so here’s a tldr: I went

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024