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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  thing I wanted. The pathway to recovery is not always so straight and ... not to plan everything out, but to switch it up, and have it be a rest ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army enlistees, and that Bill Gates had cleverly developed a way to hook up my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ." A cute story, no? Surprisingly, Levitt did not re-tell it to Stephen ... much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  good at not succumbing to temptation. Did I tell you about the time I was ... formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  Water War & Bouncy Ball Drop is not to be missed, and Resonance is rocking ... once I'm not bound to the reg desk. I'll probably spend most of the day ... working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  are limited to 8% of the class, not 10%. There's other weird stuff in there (like only Harvard beat us in yield of mutual admits, not Yale ... number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  discovered that not only was there the booming, there was FREE FOOD. Cue the long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So ... Contests, and even a Soccer Tournament I'll try to update this entry as I

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Auburn Street when a state trooper pulled them over for not displaying a ... ; Aerodynamics was the reason the license plates weren't attached to Tesseract ... . ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... Alan sent out invites to join a summer poetry group — summertry, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  reverse engineering. Of course, completing the puzzle is not necessary to ... had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... contained this bit of dialogue Friend: Hey Nat, when do you head over to ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1.013 (Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design, for those not yet versed in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid ... less likely to make an error down the road. Identifying your ... would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  long as they remember not to wear running shoes, they are set. The girls ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  even promote his name or find a gig. His case was closed--not out to ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  end up with a black hole for a star). Not to mention I haven't blogged ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully that wasn't surprising to hear). No matter which school you attend, most ... . Today, something magical is happening. Students, DSL team up to bring

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there ... very simplified nutshell, the LHC seeks to reproduce scenarios similar to the beginning of the universe (read:Big Bang). In doing so they hope to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008