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• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

    While it's easy to think and talk about the incredible ... harder to notice them when you're not. This shouldn't surprise anyone, as it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... panicked tone, I'm willing to bet that most socially-competent people punch ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... suitcases, moved from pika into Random Hall, walked back to pika anyway, drank ... Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  countless airline stewardesses, and went back to sleep. In my dreams, I congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit ... opposed to a performance group that students can join for credit (such as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those previous two things)! The other bloggers were kind enough to let me make ... further ado... In 2024, the MIT Admissions bloggers listened to 686

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... minutes later were so perfect, and that was when i knew i wanted to join the ... , trying to create sounds as beautiful as the ones i heard back then and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  today, Institute Community and Equity Officer John Dozier sent an email to ... opportunity to "acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of ... that the MIT community will pause to commemorate and recognize Indigenous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to ... dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to ... Square with my friend Moctar F. '22. It was the first time I has been to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ! Suggestions welcome--I’d actually like to have way more than 10 books, maybe ... Chinua Achebe Honorable Mentions     Things I managed to read ... Diaz (Summer ‘14) (I read this before I came to MIT and it made me want

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to ... impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... much else to say about those dark, dark weeks. When you think about it ... and boundaries set for us as students. Instead, we are given autonomy to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the ... time to dress myself and perform my morning rituals (namely brushing my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... plum sauce, because I’m allergic to cranberries, and farina cake after a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and ... , where he continues to study vision. This evening I Facebook chatted

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013