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  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the fair was pretty successful, on the whole. I met some pretty cool students, and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  The selection process continues here, and there's not much I can ... admits and mailing the early action decisions as soon as we can. I'll keep ... 're thinking, "Man, these applications are fun! I wish my friends who are juniors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  As you know, I've been traveling frequently these days, and the trips ... ), which I'm currently reading. So, I sit here on Amtrak with the book, and I ... you are not a good person. But that's just not the case. I think part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  I just returned from seeing an LSC free sneak preview of I Heart ... fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of different media forms for my assignments! Here's everything I've consumed this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  "] Create New World[/caption] i started playing minecraft again three weeks ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some caves, and got a few diamonds. diamonds! i won—and that’s where the story

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of English – especially not at (hopefully) MIT!” Boy, was I wrong. (Thankfully

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the blues." -- Nida Sinnokrot, Palestine Blues   Spring break, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  retrospect a bit impolite. It happened a little over three years ago, when I ... (relativity) but I didn't know the difference, so when the TAs skipped over my section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  I have an interesting relationship with Harvard. Coming from MIT I have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  .) I’m mildly obsessed with the internet. Actually, mildly is putting it mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  furniture. Although I initially emailed the EC house manager to request additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  Two years ago in freshman year (:O so long ago), I wrote this poem. I ... to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.”    I wrote this ... , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored. I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... and so I have decided to share my (bad) poetry and my peers' (good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  younger than the ring itself.) For starters, I wanna say that I got all ... and talking with our friends. And I have reason to believe, from what I ... anything, they screamed even louder. I probably heard about 15% of the actual

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates/labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020