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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails ... a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to ... and McDonalds came out with the McFlurry I thought they just invented a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... applying to college. A funny moment while filling out applications. What it ... remember that it will be published on a blog. Vignettes and short stories

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  having something of a get-together. It was just my aunt's family, a couple of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising ... !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those ... by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action ... penalize those students who apply regular action. While this 30% is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... International Development Network, a community network developed to promote and ... .05: Macroeconomics problem set Who knows AM -- Fall asleep dreaming of a Jim and Pam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  would obviously be a bad idea. In other school news, for those of you who ... saying that I have successfully written, among other things, a program that takes the standard deviation of a set of numbers. Which really isn't cool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one ... . The question was "1024?" and if you immediately responded "Hey, that's a ... I feel like everybody else is just such a huge nerd, blah blah blah

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... /Vice-President candidates' debate. I've been through two UAP/VP elections (with a 50% success ... . This is actually a good pic, though I bet my mom would disagree (she was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  Hi! I'm blogging live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl, the ... you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while ... -zaggy one), but ran into zoning problems, among other things, but that's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  .) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... Staples building. You can't see it from this picture, but there's a ... , bean stew over rice, green tea ice cream, red bean ice cream, flan, and a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... Meetings... it's a busy time! While I am back in Boston, look for my next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... during a tumultuous period of economic crises and political unrest, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... housemaster of East Campus dormitory. We chatted a bit about my slowly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music ... (Tommys?) were really cute. The five-year old one sure played a mean pinball

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

   FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS ” -D.A. Twins 2/25/2018 (we imagine our words echoing after we throw them ... named. Then, at the end of a meeting of a club we’re all part of, we ... , Danny mentioned a conversation he had with Alaisha A. ‘18, who actually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  I can across the Harvard Bridge. There's a speedometer halfway across the bridge that sometimes detects me as a moving entity. My record on my rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore but not really feeling "older". I felt like I was still a first year ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022