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• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  residents can tap into 24/7. Since the [annotation note='the primary gym for ... , campus gyms can also get quite busy. As someone who has worked the front desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  limit.  For their fall and spring semester, first-year students can ... name of freedom, a laissez-faire attitude can perpetuate inequity between ... , including through UROPs, clubs, and just by being around new people. How can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sweep as Ayomide walks into Lobby 7 of MIT (if you look closely you can ... Riri Williams attend lecture here--although, you can make students go to class, but you can’t make them pay attention, as she demonstrates by half

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  amount of work that goes into video production – "any MIT student can sit ... to revise and revise and revise and can't become too attached to any ... know you can identify what you like or don't like about a video but can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE OUR WIFI, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE OUR FREEDOM!!" Entire monitors from Athena ... , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I can always make new choices down the line if I figure out that my choice ... returning, freedom, pay, ... Even if you can figure out how to rank within

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... like an apple. The video is truly harrowing, but you can watch it on ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  might actually be pizza. And there are several places where you can read ... applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ...  this post by Afeefah!']Non-Stop[/annotation] pace, the experience can be

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  to figure out what to throw overboard next. What can go? What can go ... out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back ... can only shed so much while you remain in the same place. When you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little ... more accurately, it can be a good thing. It gives you a chance to build

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... ’s that. At this point, you can’t change the grades you’ve earned or the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... so few spots for so many qualified people, which means we can’t take everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american ... ? john asked. you can't, i learned. and yet, we can work toward that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , forming a pit in which it can trap and digest slightly larger creatures ... Pockets—pieces of Pockets can regenerate when they are ripped apart (like how cutting a starfish up can give you more starfish than you started

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night ... different MIT days; I can use my experience first semester to figure out what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... it, and yes you are that scatterbrained and here's how we can work with

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... and how they can donate blood. “I am O-, and donating blood is the first ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013