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• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  ensuring that you will not drown if your get knocked into the ocean while taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... of Ancient Greece, which is my [annotation note= "CI-H/CI-M classes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring ... themselves into MIT, and argued with me about Linux. They're probably out of ... about what MIT, and more importantly its people, has taught me, and what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its students into steel (see last week's post for even more fire metaphors

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  alone, would boil over into a spiral of crippling, overbearing feelings of ... .” I felt a pit of shame drop into my stomach. He had seen right through ... perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  years, dozens of students representing MIT's nine acapella groups will ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... little corner of my heart was still disappointed. Maybe I just wasn't good

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  one of the most important and useful resources we've got in the biking ... that makes living here a new experience every day. One of those things is ... then, and in that time I have become something of a self

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  this is such an important bit of culture that should not go unrecorded ... 've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  the value of using simple external metrics to make important personal ... : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  in charge of navigation and calling any important features they see ... *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  don't know how any of these kids could buy into such C-tier storytelling ... instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown ... into the rest of my hair.  My hair has been red, pink, purple, blue ... , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  crawls into the anus mirabilis of a wooden horse and then West just wrote ... -written (in the style of a children's book), and thematically important enough ... Wiz anyway because of its association with food murderer Sandra Lee. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  creeping around the back of my mind during all of [annotation note ... ’t too important, and I ranked it first on my housing intent form when it ... fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky ... into the human workings behind those facts, the little strokes of luck ... location. It’s important to never lose track of the things that make you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  early 1990s marked one of, if not the most important breakthroughs in ... that note, let’s talk about two other important uses of light in ... internet, © Greg Mahlknecht. If you unwind all of that into a single glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  sharing my journey of realizing why doing this at all, is important. **Also ... , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  weekend. First and most importantly, I got nine hours of sleep last night ... "pickles" and turned it into a ten-minute series of skits featuring the ... 11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  MIT into that day as possible, but that's kind of what MIT is like, right? Cramming a ton of stuff into a really short time period? I have ... of those ways is to attend MIT. Another one of those ways is to visit

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  color don't fall into the trap of thinking you won't be admitted because ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005