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• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the ... test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even ... ]https://youtu.be/0XfTtIvuWUg[/embed] I’ll be the first to say it: The swim test is

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  then every minute i’d bump my pace up by half a mile per hour until i was ... just get stronger”. i think these sayings are communicating the same ... phrasing you like more i suppose during the summer, fall, and winter of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I’ve never physically experienced. Well, I've never directly experienced it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  , presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google ... said commitments. Anyway. I've slept an inordinate amount this weekend and finally feel ready to rejoin society. Today I woke up and looked out

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  last day of class is tomorrow, but I only have 7.28 (molecular biology ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I think I've attended a grand total of one since the end of my freshman year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  and Nabokov and signed copies of Charlotte's Web and I, Robot. Giant ... ) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  and I are fairly proud of, having mounted the whiteboard before we had access to a level). Which brings us back to balance. "I know you are ... slacklining went something like this: Me: "Whoa, this is really cool! I'm gonna

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish ... would inevitably meet our untimely, grisly demise. I was wrong - that was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  on Colab so I ended up having to redo it all on separate Google ... , aka undergrad research."]UROP,[/annotation] I took Intro to Deep ... take such a famed class, I decided to give my [annotation note="have I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city, specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  ...on the toilet!" “I tried, and by tried I mean meticulously googled ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the ... these was a...trip, because I also have no recollection of the situations

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... that has nutrition or enrichment like the toys tigers get at the zoo. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  the creators) is now all over the web, having been covered, among other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... allowed five pages. I am convinced that there is an inverse correlation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write about dining at the Institvte. (I'll admit that I'm also writing this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022