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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what ... , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don ... . Turns out, they were the next day. I usually like to prepare a few days in ... have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  of food we get. Here's a picture of the corner of the selection room ... knew that. I need to get back to it - more updates when there's something to report. Enjoy the rest of your weekends!

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here ... catch up to it and I’ll have to get a new one. Maybe by then I will be ... , and I hope I too will be satisfied if I get there. In a few hours, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents ... offered in the fall), 20.109 (I think it’s bad form to drop a lab class and

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  the AC in my car dies when it gets too hot. I always pause to appreciate ... is more trouble than it's worth. I still plan to own a car later in ... in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  I didn't really know anyone in Tokyo, to which she said "Me, your ... of toast and tea and ramen, and then she took me to Ikebukuro to get a ... , I think, and I start to get defensive. What's in it for her? Why is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  hope. The next morning I managed to get a flight out, and I was off to ... . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... first ever flight cancellation. Basically, I was waiting to make a

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , we'll all get on a plane and fly to New Mexico, where we'll reduce some ... , who's in that other office, found a surprising picture of me under his ... hid in the biggest one, on top of the bed. Heroically maintaining a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white ... still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an ... Program exhibition.   Yes, that does seem to be a photograph of a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or ... gets a hug too!  I was also hugged, but no one though to take a ... everyday you get to surprise one of the greatest admissions officers in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too ... . There’s a scene in which Jake, the older brother (who… also happens to be

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  I ended up getting to see Leslie in Kresge. sneaky far away ... didn't get chosen in the lottery, which was sad.   AND YET shout ... A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the ... serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... chipped in $35 and rented cars and a cabin (apparently, MIT students can ... seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  - if you aren't the sh*t, you're not going to get into MIT. Having said ... CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all second-semester seniors, but procrastination is not your friend in this

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  school, a mile from the old city plaza. In the days leading up to Christmas ... prescriptions. "Tell me your problems and your life, and I'll give you a poem to ... -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  's 15 and she didn't go to high school. She worked in a lab instead, and ... He looked the devil in the eye, and said "You're looking well" The ... exam schedule gets a bit more staggered, so it's better). For example

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated ... the penalty, if you're in the lowest quartile. As a tiebreaker, each ... For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020