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• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  got one of those climbing grip training boards, which is kinda fun, and ... sometimes your workout or run is punctuated by the click and conversation of ... ’s so easy to just sit on my phone or get distracted; being around others

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  person, which is much better complex than a simple sum of achievements. Don ... applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... post to remind you that success is something you pull out of yourself

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  16.07, and using on-orbit machine learning to identify which images of ... what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... of stylish conformists, which isn’t true to my experience at a college

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get ... , which was on the high end of the HP stat distribution. I started with two ... for the Game Lab, which is so cool to me. Dream job TBH. Related to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  to check on one of two hotel lobby computers, both of which had ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... having no cross-streets or turnaround areas, which took me halfway to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• 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…

  

  +. If you go to your professor's office hours, which they'll post on the ... - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... router. Someone on Burton 4 declared loudly that it was all due to those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  another HASS class to take and landed on CMS.840, which I initially didn ... on this. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - This is one of those books ... voices on what the time was, even if some of them got to it a little more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... , onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that ... life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  one idea. Which is easier said than done. Listen to Ira Glass – He ... cables and learn what different pieces of equipment did. Which is, I think ... (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video

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

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  the two sides of a heart to be even is about as easy as herding cats ... dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a ... to the direction of the sword, which reduced the force of my blows

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned ... experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  shelf out, and handed it to him. I picked his sweatpants up from on top of ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my ... and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about ... registration is quite simple, especially on the Harvard side, which is now ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to ... Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... a thing called Partimento (which is hard to explain), and I realized I ... because I'm afraid of being bad at it. Which yeah, sounds dumb on paper but

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Lidle's plane crash. Regis is not to far from the site of the crash, so ... Les and Tom Nacinovich, who is the EC assigned to Regis. At most of the ... question applies to musicians, or those who want to do any kind of other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006