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

  

  Obligatory Swim Test Lore:  The MIT Swim Test was created in the ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual

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

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  your hardest year.” She told me this five years ago, back in 11th grade. “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... nearly six months in a household I had long since outgrown. The next few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference in Florida! The view from our hotel room. As its name indicates ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however, have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  ) nobody in my family has ever won the lottery, suggesting that my otherwise ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... my genetic misfortunes, despite the misguided expectations instilled in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... well in your quest to learn more about MIT. [read more] Ben's First Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... lives up in pictures, detailing the events they attend, the reality shows

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... second, wanted to sit in it and be wheeled around and pulled in and out of the ambulance.) After that, we got to sit around in the (really awesome

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  romantically?" "If you dipped your person's head in liquid nitrogen so their hair ... (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  whatever word you want. In a bout of curiosity-fueled insanity that is not uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... a lot of risks in making this post."]sleep-deprived college student

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

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... ? these thoughts have always felt like they kept me grounded, in a sense, so what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... large, oddly-shaped area under the curve and zoom in: And then keep zooming in: And then suddenly, if you zoom in far enough, the curve isn’t a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  still covering old material, and there are no exams in sight. Perhaps a ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time ... respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... weird coupling, I know. When I was in business school I had an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013