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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the

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

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get ... but everybody was so attractive. i cannot wait for the second season ... for it is too damn high. I have gotten slightly better at guitar in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  pages of Cosmos and i felt so proud of myself that i played minecraft for ... . Last game you played Fatima> 2048! Jenny> this app called Soul ... your team gets to program a robot which plays the game (this year, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  , thinking about final assignments and projects for the semester, thinking ... boxed and stored away for three months. i moved back [annotation note="real home"]home[/annotation] for a week, where i was mostly alone, besides the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  corresponded. Fun for toute la famille! I think that you could play the same game ... until our feast was ready. We played this "game" in which non-MIT people ... which he just plays random notes for a whole minute, and then ends on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  credits required for graduation. Being a tech school, the balls representing the engineering classes are three times more valuable than the ones for ... possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... ... Then with Peter Pan, the ideas of hooks for a hand and singing pirates ... ”. That’s another thing! For the sailors, this wasn’t “sea music,” it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... spiral notebook. My 5.13 TA apparently does this whole atomic role-playing ... couple of my friends and I hang out for a short time every evening, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  ’t think about physics at all for the first half of 2020, and then I got to ... It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... do some of this during my 2020 IAP, but it was harder to achieve ... recap of IAP 2020: Externing [caption id="attachment_55347" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in ... for two reasons: 1) We would be working on designing an application for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  that sucks. ... Growing up, my family played a lot of board games. During covid we would play a full game of monopoly every night for weeks ... a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  , playing the game of ‘how many hours did you sleep last night?’ ‘I slept less ... This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week ... 's okay for you to struggle as well. Head to gym after your first final and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a ... and sign up for ten groups, because, hey, you did ten things in high ... I'm home for the evening. Cheerleading is a time commitment of about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... Health and Wellness Tips for College Students (from Rutgers, actually ... Apps/Tools (I use Mint, it’s free and it’s probably overkill for college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear ... points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  , Long Jacket, but neither made it =( ) They ended up playing for about an ... around the world - a Habitat for Humanity event, this year they built walls ... played were: Stickshifts and Safetybelts, Sheep Go To Heaven, Mexico, The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future ... and sausages for us to eat while we watched The Hunger Games trilogy ... For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  work for Company B, they weren't a gaming company, and I'm glad that I ... student as time has gone on, but I definitely haven't gamed the system yet ... excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  (where a special end game is setup in the last few seconds for extra points ... 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and ... monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012