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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  That title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a lot longer (and probably a lot funnier) than this, but it is now over an ... ), and even let a crusty old alum corner him backstage before he even had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  Orphan Annie. Tessie is, like Annie, a little orphan, but unlike Annie, she's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... , auditioning for a musical is basically my worst nightmare: not only can people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... the Polish after their lunch break. After a few hours of inviting

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  // watched Qala a little too late and cried a little too much // cut my hair ... (Taylor’s Version) announcement on a livestream in my bed // made Spotify ... // cry and cry //    i love being a girl // let me be // 

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  week, in preparation for a CPW event that my fraternity hosts every year, Battle of the Bands, I went to check out a potential band for the ... scraped off with that one. I soon arrived at Harper's Ferry to a packed room

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  mean, it looks like a plane at a given location (if you suppose that you can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  Notch National Forest and State Park. It was a truly incredible trip: we ... , crammed six people into a four-person tent (which was a good move, because ... day. On the way back on Sunday, we hit up a farm selling produce, a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  , Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 students on a comparative urban studies program focused on understanding the ... I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long ... predict the turn of events by fiddling with a can of Budweiser and pacing around his small, money-sucking apartment, a pinprick in the vast mix of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  [/annotation] was CPW, or Campus Preview Weekend. A lot of really neat events happened ... [/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want ... consider to be “the most exciting thing i did over CPW.”   I stole a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to make that up the next morning at 8 a.m. i hadn't studied nearly enough

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... midnight. It was rote memorization, repetitive busywork. I learned Equation A

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  , unabashed law and policy geek. Before I began working at MIT, I was a Research ... organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports Illustrated, or Cosmo, or even Wine Spectator (if you're a special kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  Once, a man whom we can only assume must have been truly desperate responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement, "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He’s studying Electrical Engineering. He’s a pretty ... ’d be a perfect fit for MIT and lots of other build-y culture nerd schools

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note="please be nice to them ... help! In the meantime, there’s a bunch of things you can do while you

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  It was 2AM. After a heart-warming and tummy-filling Thanksgiving ... screen illuminated three sheets of paper covered in a few inked drawings for my next blog post and I took a dainty sip from my aluminum water

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011