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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  being said about you. Your essays are the only time that you get to speak directly to admissions committee. Make your voice count! Don't use your whole ... Gruder gets it. Satire is supposed to leave a mark. Advice about applying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... , with the tools I need to take on anything. Would I have felt the same ... — come to get to this point — the celebratory halfway mark. The brass rat

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  rock, burnt the midnight oil, trying to figure out how to promote the ... to be a huge day, but staring at myself, with my bent glasses hinged on ... opinions on the merits and flaws of the book. For instance, to his taste, my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  my window on Friday as I read your applications: #1 | #2 Cool, huh ... rail on a Saturday or a Sunday and do some exploring (you can easily get ... from Kendall/MIT to Porter). Getting off campus and out of the city for

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... different department?" More on the rest of my classes later, but I want you to ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... Project in its scope and usefulness, and I feel honored to be working on it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  at MIT, he was extended an invitation to speak on campus, which he ... sure you back up your assertions with reliable sources. Me on the ... Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  now I quite enjoy being able to stream BBC Radio to Zanzibar while on ... using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  :30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I ... blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass him, but the picture is on my parents' camera.) We went to Disneyland on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... .  How the class works is we read a book by some salty New-England sea dog ... changed to be shanty by pop culture. When I say CHantey, I mean a historical

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  past by carrying on old traditions. "You could get an idea of what ... . Jackson was persuaded by the brothers to stay on to cook breakfast for ... brothers recalled how Mr. Jackson had cooked and sent meals to the needy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... actual event, we also had to go on a few shopping trips, including one to a ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  East, on the wall next to her: And here she is again, getting fed an ... about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... to light a clove cigarette as Brian '08 looks on. It was a huge cake

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... your head is that of punks standing on a street corner in a bad 80s teen ... possible they weren't joking? On the T, I started to hear more of the story

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front ... slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... 's study break should be Canada. Come to Foo at 22:47 and donate your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... weekly check-ins to see how they were going, and helped develop question ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  't only have to choose a place to spend then next five years of your life ... wallet itself. So I might have to get my debit card replaced, at worst. But ... awesomely scored tickets to see The Colbert Report on Wednesday, so we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  cool to collect links to other blogs somewhere. So if you have a blog, leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get! ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005