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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  our salvation," Rindone plans to remind his varied group of fellow seniors. "The fact is our high school memories are going to be very ... , Rindone said his parents, David and Patricia, urged him to set lofty goals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he ... graduation, Riess chose to attend MIT, where he majored in Physics (Course 8 ... addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  ominously thick package that included everything from housing lottery to ... regular 2-hour weekly meetings during the Fall term. Compared to Traditional ... it would be a great way to continue my love for art in a, well, tech

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help but worry as I waited for the Admissions Staff to send back their reply

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2 ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish ... sickeningly bright green drink—a matcha frappuccino—and prayed to the stars that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was able to attend number 2 (and am also missing number 3), which is why I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family. As I've posted ... :       This year, my uncle Ken wanted to bring back the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential information about the digits hidden under the latex coating. Nothing needed to ... to more practical concerns. "Once I worked out how much money I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... everyone thinks of when they hear "architecture major." We learn how to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... wife for this. I vowed never to watch this show, ever. But my wife's a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... everything around me. My water bottles have been akin to that, but instead

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... -o-clock hour encroaches. sewing shirts Est. time: 1 hour each Shoutout to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push it up again toward the summit. He goes back down to the plain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner ... Tube until eventually moving on to another project. Months went by until one

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019