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• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... -tired, you know what that means... picture entry! If you're on dialup, you ... White put on this summer. After several hours of taping down old copies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  workout designed to focus on toning and strengthening while utilizing self ... consist of warm-ups, exercises focusing on isolation and coordina- tion ... American dance. Focus is on fast and rigorous learning, reaction time, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  . I'm tired just thinking about this. Moving on to....FEE results! The ... are required to take it. You sign up on-line, access the required readings on-line, and submit your essays by email. A few weeks later, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to ... -Recorder, a newspaper focused on the African-American community in Minnesota ... talks with his father on education being equivalent to success. "Before my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  .D candidate at the MIT Media Lab, an expert on robot-legged locomotion, who was featured on the cover of Wired magazine. I guess that advising a film critic on the scientific plausibility of a Steven Spielberg movie isn't quite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for ... on Admissions," presented by Amherst College Dean of Admissions Tom ... 've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  or the Great Dome on the ring bezel. After much debate, the committee ... -piece construction, with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank ... MIT seal and the class year each appearing on a separate shank, flanking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My ... deadline versus those submitted on the deadline day. The bottom line -- no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was doing. Largely, I applied to the top schools on the east coast that did ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  Raiye and I on a vast array of adventures across the United States and ... , who was at the time 11), hopped on an airplane, and took what I didn ... buildings on every side. Tall gates surrounded the complex, and stepping

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... ’m reflecting on almost ten years since I moved to Cambridge as Sufjan and his

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  project you're working on through this program"]UROP[/annotation] meetings ... my research process, as opposed to being stressed on a weekly basis ... much anxiety—I mean, on a physical level—my hands would shake, I’d start

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  world on sea music, and it was an insanely fun class!  At MIT, all ... for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... something like 99 bottles of milk on the wall, or The Ants Go Marching (which

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... deprivation, by the way. I almost got a migraine on the third night. There were ... focuses on the dialogue in the show. Part II will focus on the on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... would be catered dinner. I’d had a midterm and a major essay on Thursday ... the opening event on Friday. Josephine is a chemical engineer, Rick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  -one, right?" I laughed her off because I wasn't planning on drinking anyway. She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I ... heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... everybody who I have left on read this summer; I promise I'll get back to you ... [/annotation]or working on the side-projects I need to work on, I've been going out into the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot ... voracious readers, I'm definitely a bit behind on discovering Libby. But now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it ... taking care of others   on self-care i think the meaning of self

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  y or any of the numerous other sentiments that focus on the status of ... you can reduce the amount of pain other people inflict on you by ... reading i’ve done on relationships has been about communication difficulties

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022