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• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about ... get if you call 911.  In certain medical emergencies (I hear sports ... freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  believe me when I tell them how ridiculous it looks. The stairs to Senior ... Yesterday I carried my camera around all day and took awkward ... other days when I carry my camera around all day and take awkward pictures

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  can we make sure that supplementary materials were received? I sent in ... interested in blogging as well for the admissions office, where can I get more ... each, how can I include all three scores? BTW College board has sent MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... can answer many questions. For those driving to campus: I've been living in Boston for 12 years now, and I don't own a car, and for good reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  you learned some of these? I now know how many hours are in a week and how many weeks are in a year I learned that MEAD envelopes with ... 'm sitting here, freaking out about how I didn't "get in." Well guess what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T-Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can ... eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... nice? Do they look miserable? Vibes/ambiance - Can I eat here without

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Green Building stairs when I can just live all my 3.5 years on campus in ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  water war weapons. I have sporks on my shirts. I chip in to buy our ... of paper. I can only guess what happens to those lists of names, but I ... solution. I spent all of my time at a particular fraternity in hopes of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  indifferent in the slightest. Wait, did I say March? I can't wait till March WTF ... was during this time, I noticed a difference in how I viewed MIT. This ... the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking about lab and about how these past few weeks in Bhatia Lab have taught me ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... , not today” or lean their head towards me so i can ruffle their hair a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  eat? How do I properly feed myself?  Can I feed myself if I am off the ... ’m stupid for asking so many questions? How can I ration the number of ... ? How would my life be different if I didn’t do crew in the early mornings

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  'm confident things will work out for you. Let me know how I can help further ... half done, so I'll answer my backlog of questions in several parts. Here ... many applicants, how many will be accepted, etc." I still haven't seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  hours in the day (boxes), and there are so many activities I can be doing ... Writing Autobiography"] 21W.022.[/annotation] In fact, I loved this class ... this class. In reality, this isn’t an insane amount, but other classes I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced ... Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... wood, or even how to use any power tools whatsoever, I was confident that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025