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• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  attend office hours for classes where the problem sets are notorious for ... different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an adjustment period, but for me, I personally feel very welcome by this community

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only ... with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  room in the halls/dorms generally? 2.are there different halls for boys ... single sex. For example, my suite is all girls, so we have a single ... Mitra's, for example). The point is that there are all kinds of options

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  , given that there are 12 MITbloggers and assuming no leap years? Sorry for ... worth it just for the holograms and strobe photography exhibit. I also ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  even cooler name. 4. You might think Xena is a funny name for a planet ... ! 7. Ruth and I have painted for about 12 hours each over the past three ... vegetarian for a month was so I could write about it on my blog. So, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3 ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in ... for at dim sum, but if you make a request, sometimes they'll serve it at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... ). Favorite TV: The OC, Alias, and Lost are the only 3 hours I give up for TV ... , Counting Crows, Coldplay, U2, Incubus, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... for the rest of the day because the spoon is angry. Jason has two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww ... explanation for why he did this, but it might be that he was just bored. A ... Seattle for the summer (Boeing, Microsoft, etc.) and had dinner at The Crab

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... Birmingham for an evaluation of his delivery. Because ASMI is in conjunction ... apply to sports and people's movements playing sports. So for my senior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone ... -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... , our 550-Volt custom battery, controls algorithms for torque vectoring ... all the answers. Just go for it.  1) To be a good software engineer, you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be ... in myself. If I didn’t let myself try my best for fear of failing. If I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  blogger for five long (and excellent) years. I have tried SO MANY Oreo flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I ... statement may not be true: the more unusual ones are often only available for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my ... —  (I’ve been trying very hard to stop using the word “home” for New House ... ’ll orchestrate a situation for you to meet my dad, and then he won't be a stranger

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  show, so I'll just put this here, along with my short pitch for the show ... Gravity Falls, Oregon for the summer and live with the Gruncle Stan Pines ... . Anyways, it's very hard for me to put into words how much this show means to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could actually have control over. I waited for him to tell me what to do, hoping he ... ’t set to start for another two weeks, I wanted to maintain some semblance

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... rankings and thoughts: 1) Baker: because I was hosted here for CPW and ... (debatable, if I'm being honest with myself). Things turned out fine for me. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  big plastic horn thing we have for some reason. Those who came to ... the rink were GRAs and friends cheering for whichever team they owed ... in this way for five nights, and then the final bracket was revealed to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025