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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Nazi prison camp, and was premiered to 5,000 fellow prisoners of war and their guards. This entry is a response to two excellent comments from ... performance in audio and retrieve to us what you learn about Germany? It's just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets ... , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and ... it hard to believe that girls are that much more qualified than guys

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the ... silly for him to fly all the way back there just to turn around and fly back here. So instead he came to Plymouth with us on his first visit to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... , always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but ... , apparently. I presented Akash with a loaf of white bread, and he went to work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  , other MIT offices, and various corporations to organize and fund this year ... 's Week 2005 November 5th-10th "To promote a model of femininity that ... to share ideas, air frustrations, and advance the leadership role of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... eats to go to bed. Farhan: Hmm? Sam: Yeah, isn't that total crap? I eat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free Garbage concert. Well, first, you have to hear about my morning. I got to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review: All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... -legged robot, he returned to the subject in his biweekly "Movie Answer Man

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

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the ... positioned them on stage. According to the program, they were accompanied by ... various communities of the world who need MIT and whose voices call out to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation ... like week 3 to share some neat things I learned this semester and share ... . That’s why I dropped to [annotation note="Physics 1 Long"]8.01L

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please."]IAP[/annotation] period and decided he wanted to make an automated nerf turret. Here is how ... on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me ... asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  ’re me, [annotation note="not that you need quiz bowl experience to enjoy ... group dedicated to this site[/caption] I should probably use Wikipedia as ... to this. For example, did you know that [annotation note="btw i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020