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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... my ticket validated for the next day and hopped in a taxi bound for my hotel. Here's what it looks like up there... A very convincing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  at the same time. As for me, I gave up varsity athletics (wrestling ... page: Pistol Upends Navy For National Title, Earn Eight All ... First Team for air pistol and the Second Team in free. Walter Lin received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... for snapper. Sadly, though, I had almost no luck (skill?). Maybe I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  forwarded to us for review, and we will contact you about filling out our ... transcript through the QB application, please allow 7–10 business days for this ... science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  . i tried scraping a new reed for my oboe but i ende up pressing too ... the last book for my reading seminar (infrastructure systems in theory ... information so i just freeze up, unable to recall the information in what feels

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  , with purpose, with a reason for getting up on hundreds and thousands of ... I put up a blog post on MIT Admissions was about one year ago. I ... in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  players, built governors for the engine room, and wired up the fuel rod ... these blogs. More than once have I shown up for the first day of class and ... entries I've got archived here are an awesome way to reminisce. Ups and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  my own entry about the same subject for a while now. I have also been follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my ... could potentially be a very over-excited description of what I've done for

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... myself repeating the same story I tell everyone. I'm only child. I grew up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  grown up with for the past seven years will go different ways. In seven ... very kids that I have grown up with for the past seven years are using ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  Year capstone course for Mechanical Engineering. Seniors spend the ... outfits. The vibes are good. Also, while we were waiting for the show to start, I was doing some thinking and came up with a pickup line. We may be

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  similar situation, waiting for the chance to attack. Neither of us ended up ... auction where old bicycles sell for very cheap prices. I also discovered that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  , iris and the giant, shapez.io. i had one final exam, for 24 ... final exam, for 6.3900 [6.036] introduction to machine learning, which ... some esp friends who were staying over for break: zawad, lixuan, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... people i’ve ever met at coming up with extended verbal arguments on the ... expressed were at once very resonant and very troubling for me on one hand, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... for our nation. The death of George Floyd and the events unfolding in ... intense for certain members of our community, beginning with those who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  prepare myself for the abrupt goodbye, where one day, we will all get up and ... leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years ... hope for myself and the world as a freshman and sophomore and regrettably

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... Kitchen While I was here for two hours, I didn’t actually end up eating all ... mental pain instead of physical pain. It was free food, so I made my way up

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started ... world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  to do that for the sole purpose of getting swole enough to do a kip up ... a lot of Discords - for living groups, for clubs, and for all of MIT ... ,[/annotation] and gaming channels for doing [annotation note="i cannot describe how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020