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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally ... me right now for making me feel human again. I wasn't expecting it to happen this morning. I woke up dead tired in the house we're renting here

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was kinda nice:   In fact you may have seen this movie starring us ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... your chair. He spent four years waking me up at 5 AM for school, which is ... .) I've been taking the 8-9AM hour at desk every weekday morning for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first ... high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names ... as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... full name does occasionally work in my favor, though. Aside from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  . In the meantime, my mother made plans for a future carpool arrangement ... 's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for ... high hopes for this season. I feel like the show might be in trouble, but ... Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  well in a challenging curriculum. Next, it's time for your teacher ... throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... competitions? etc. What do you write about in your short answer essays? in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for ... pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  in use, though, as other groups, labs, and classes use it for research ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... length of our cooldown for it to sink in to me-we had made the podium! But ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... activities and especially in-house rush (when Macgregor freshmen pick entries ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  goal for this trip was to soak everything in, the environment, people ... in a true Mens et Manus fashion, find inspiration for my final project ... To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... put "vacation" in quotations not because it wasn't wonderful - it was ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force. ... ) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  pens for bright kids to go four years reveling in how bright they are ... illustrated in such dramatic form, so young, for it to exist. A lot of you have ... Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class ... allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... experiment at MIT several years ago has now taken hold in the campus culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... complete INDEPENDENCE. At least for now, I'm happy to stay in the kitchen a ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017