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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... had every opportunity to learn, but I was too busy applying to be a

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

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story ... a bit of a different spin, bringing in guest speakers every class to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  difficulty. A hat tip to my boss, Chris Peterson, for finding this challenge ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  I spent four days in pure agony before seeing a dentist and finding ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab ... research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the ... uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... , describing what they've left where, and people scurry to claim it and carry it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training ... shining, and a score to settle, it is the perfect day for soccer. We start

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest. Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... duties for many years before then. Essentially, my job is to find some of ... they need to know about our admissions process. I'm a talent scout, more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of ... event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... Floor Activities Fund. Basically, to promote dorm unity, if you bring a certain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the ... trained, so I feel much more qualified to write about it! It's a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to ... Director was told to organize his or her classmates into a shelter team, an evacuation team, and a Public Relations team. The Director was to achieve

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  .  Lunch is where people make friends right? So, we made a plan to sit with ... to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One ... applications that asked a greater variety of questions forced me to think about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  related to normal and shear stresses, a diagram of a rotated block with no ... dying to do for years- I went to a kickboxing class! (MIT has kickboxing ... got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  this series of directions to follow to find the train home. Discussion ... much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these ... : Basically, each clue refers to either a book or television series somehow

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three ... in a tissue and is a rare occurrence that sometimes has to be ... heel was probably a bruise because I could rotate my foot with little to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  about what happened but finding ways to express my grief anyway. and as a ... least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone ... have to begin treatment within a few days of symptom onset / a positive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Appetizer Prelude to an entry

  

  Real entry to come soon (within a week), this is just to get you ready/anxious. Click here

  • by Snively '11
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... step in the project was to establish a set of constraints such that a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006