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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  . It’s so on the nose, so cliche. You abandon all of it and start over ... short to not at least try, and whether or not it’s any good I’m proud of ... post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  , and now the only things out-of-place on hall are the piles of dirty ... Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... -veterans, and they were unlike any I’ve heard. We are extremely fortunate at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of ... decided to go on a camping trip at the beginning of the week and spent the ... the first full week of classes, and looking back on all the things I did

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every ... put in my best effort and keep my eyes on my own paper. I like building ... saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  . Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why ... [William Temple] Hornaday's book on the animals of North America and ... : And finally, the Class of 2000 Brass Rat (the one currently on my right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the ... ? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important ... for you and your parents. Write letters of recommendation for you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... dedicated myself to the black and white pieces on the board and learned the patterns like the back of my hand and anticipate every next move? What if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  the first half of my college experience by focusing on the trees and ... subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the ... other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world ... and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I ... part in one of MIT's coveted traditions, and so I gladly accepted an ... while the doctor listens to my lungs and winces. I went on antibiotics

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do ... more helpful and successful. If you have any feedback, constructive ... reading, commenting, and otherwise being a part of this project over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... dangly moon earring on test days, distribute lollipops, and recieve a minute-long standing ovation on the last day of class. He was definitely

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  lectures focused more on conceptual things and “thinking like a programmer ... -off of space and time (meaning that you can make things run faster if you ... of stamen, and since the stamen are the male parts, they named the gene

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  day. Time and time again, a younger version of myself began to nod off ... and is the Officially Recognized Commemorative Video of The Great Night ... A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  . There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my ... the first floor of Burton-Conner (and by first I mean second, because we ... amounts of sugar, corn syrup, rice krispies, peanut butter, and chocolate

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of ... any college application. I applied to MIT early action and didn’t apply

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  is a definitive end, and a specific course of understanding. Here on ... , Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 ... program is focused on experiential learning and learning from the community

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could ... version of chemistry A humanities, arts and social science (HASS) elective ... theory, others on application; and so on. Also, remember that all freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I ... video game reccs- I've been playing a lot of Hollow Knight and Hyper Light

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018