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FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful -
Blog / Blog Projects
Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?
each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms ... prefrosh (sorry that this quiz is so late lol). I dormspammed the survey in -
Blog / Classes
contradictions too much, not enough
to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel ... in a 70s band or something. it's just that the exams suck. i'm also -
Blog / MIT Life
sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)
responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are -
Blog / Extracurriculars
My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience
quickly tested. It started about 1am that night. I had been getting in and ... , there was a knock at my door. I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... comfortable coming and knocking on my door. Many of us Medlinks in East Campus -
Blog / Admissions
CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!
, I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... doors in the infinite corridor until I found: After the chat group ... that all of the admissions officers were in the student center. We didn -
Blog / Hacks
Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…
Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state -
Blog / Uncategorized
things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten
on couches, bothering my roommates, and contemplating life in this pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... just the lighthearted nature of the show mixed in with a darker, deeper -
Blog / Internships & Externships
Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!
you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... have accomplished so much and grown in ways that I cannot even describe. Week 0 In the first week of the program, we were paired with another team -
Blog / Challenges
classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law
validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... 'm getting better at handling feelings around failure, and that in itself makes -
Blog / Challenges
The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out
the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody ... :("]few[/annotation] glaciers left in the park. All the blog posts I read -
Blog / Miscellaneous
a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018
kind of stuff but some algorithms are just bad. Not just bad in the sense ... inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like. ... ): Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by -
Blog / Challenges
Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo
building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I -
Blog / Academics & Research
What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month
up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of veterans, in collaboration with Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men
in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... -story structure just across the street, with balconies jutting outwards, bearing in ... -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind -
Blog / MIT Life
Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."
this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then -
Blog / Admissions
MY college essay 498 words of angst.
-dropping in its home makeover-like looks). Do you know anything about it? (JKim ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook ... , custom fish tanks, are allowed in these dorms if they meet safety -
Blog / Academics & Research
it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up
want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can. I spent a