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• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... ’t consider myself to be a terrible ice skater, but I was pretty bad in the ... taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... , followed by a woman with a bonnet. That’s when I figure it out: they’re Amish ... know where to look, and $2.75 in Amtrak fine dining. My wallet is sad. I

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

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  . From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products ... to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of ... lives the game is over. There's a highscore system so that you can compete

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  forgot this song existed until I heard it in Darwin's, a Cambridge cafe ... always tell people when I tell them how I figured out I was bisexual that ... significant. I think this is around the time I started getting really sad in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... . One thing is certain: if I am invested in you - and you know who you are ... experience, same as I've always done. That's a promise. I'll write a lot more

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  - Auroux for 18.02 in the fall is AWESOME! Do try to take that class unless ... do whatever is comfortable for you. --- Whew, that is a LOT of ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to ... 'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  favorite things about MIT is that i never know how my day will go. it never ... into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... , doing so much. if i began to write everything that needed to be done, it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to ... similar - but that's the point. It shows how important they are!) 3. Do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  placed a seed of doubt in my mind that I had caused the accident. "Oh", I ... admittedly is a baller - so I also love the Charles River Bike Path, which runs ... my right, when all of a sudden a big green sedan is cutting right in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  all I know is that I want to do something great. I just have no clue how ... when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two ... ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  allotted time, I realized just how legit the work-energy relation is in real ... lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much ... up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  store that's in a reasonable distance, because that's how suburbs are, I ... . This is a post about how I'm sharing a house with people who started as ... power." "Is that from a twelve-step program?" Rohan asked. "Why would I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  do and how we live. Here's the way I write. I write about the stuff admissions will never tell you. I do this because this is why I feel the blogs ... interesting. I'm a blogger, I blog about content that I like. That's why you

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... in the things that you know are correct?" I asked. He nodded. "But you ... . It's a great example showing everything I'm talking about! 1. Begin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  asked: How much time does a sport at MIT really take up? I'm sure you ... interested in a varsity sport, but I definitely didn't speak to the coach until ... group called "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," which I found

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  come together in such a way that the audience feels that it is immersed ... example of a change that was made.) But despite the fact that this play is a ... plot. Stagecraft has to do with everything in a play excepting the actors

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019