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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  ran on the Marathon Sports treadmill. It's one thing to run on a machine ... me to go run outside on the concrete sidewalk. From waist-up, I was obviously not prepared for this. This was on Boylston, which is a pretty busy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  isn't graded on a curve, and 50/100 is a passing grade. If you're a freshman (and thus on pass/no record grades), and are taking the class in the ... famous Stata Center), the TEAL format offers a more hands-on approach that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... -tired, you know what that means... picture entry! If you're on dialup, you ... White put on this summer. After several hours of taping down old copies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  workout designed to focus on toning and strengthening while utilizing self ... consist of warm-ups, exercises focusing on isolation and coordina- tion ... American dance. Focus is on fast and rigorous learning, reaction time, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  . I'm tired just thinking about this. Moving on to....FEE results! The ... are required to take it. You sign up on-line, access the required readings on-line, and submit your essays by email. A few weeks later, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to ... -Recorder, a newspaper focused on the African-American community in Minnesota ... talks with his father on education being equivalent to success. "Before my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  .D candidate at the MIT Media Lab, an expert on robot-legged locomotion, who was featured on the cover of Wired magazine. I guess that advising a film critic on the scientific plausibility of a Steven Spielberg movie isn't quite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for ... on Admissions," presented by Amherst College Dean of Admissions Tom ... 've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  or the Great Dome on the ring bezel. After much debate, the committee ... -piece construction, with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank ... MIT seal and the class year each appearing on a separate shank, flanking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My ... deadline versus those submitted on the deadline day. The bottom line -- no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was doing. Largely, I applied to the top schools on the east coast that did ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... ’m reflecting on almost ten years since I moved to Cambridge as Sufjan and his

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  project you're working on through this program"]UROP[/annotation] meetings ... my research process, as opposed to being stressed on a weekly basis ... much anxiety—I mean, on a physical level—my hands would shake, I’d start

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  world on sea music, and it was an insanely fun class!  At MIT, all ... for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... something like 99 bottles of milk on the wall, or The Ants Go Marching (which

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... deprivation, by the way. I almost got a migraine on the third night. There were ... focuses on the dialogue in the show. Part II will focus on the on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... would be catered dinner. I’d had a midterm and a major essay on Thursday ... the opening event on Friday. Josephine is a chemical engineer, Rick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  -one, right?" I laughed her off because I wasn't planning on drinking anyway. She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I ... heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... everybody who I have left on read this summer; I promise I'll get back to you ... [/annotation]or working on the side-projects I need to work on, I've been going out into the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot ... voracious readers, I'm definitely a bit behind on discovering Libby. But now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it ... taking care of others   on self-care i think the meaning of self

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022