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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better ... , and Spiderman 2 Favorite Reality TV Show: Beauty and the Geek, for

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  mailed out on Friday!" It seems Mother Nature had other plans for me. I got ... -checking protocols we have set up internally. So, I assure you, if you are among those ... making jokes about astrophysics," Kanamori said. For a little more than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Market). Then we walked through Boston Common, up Beacon Hill, across the ... West. Plimoth Plantation, which is mostly closed for the season, was next ... answer my backlog of admissions-related questions. For a quick MIT fix

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  increasingly nostalgic for my experiences back then. Our table in honors math ... now. I miss my friends from home. I often wonder what they're up to ... 've heard the voice of any of my friends from home. While I do keep up with

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.  There is something strange about writing for the public. You are giving up ... together and sometimes, I am stuck with the same feeling for months, never

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  movement in that direction. you tell yourself, if i plan for the cart to move ... yourself, if i push in a direction that looks appealing i will surely end up ... you’d like to, and you end up having to correct your course constantly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  met up at 7pm at a place called Dear Annie, located just off the Red ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... comfortable together). We got up from our seats to check out the menu, which was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... it. i mean, sure, i went to acting school for four years, but i ... doing improv was a lot of fun, so i tried auditioning for a few groups

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... Beantown)) One of my resolutions for this semester is to spend more time ... was MIT's Family Weekend; my parents drove up from Philadelphia to visit

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  started typing up a draft for this post on my phone (which was originally ... , at 8pm you return to the Media Lab to finish up some notes and plan for ... would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  AGAIN FOR THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY WITH SOME MORE ... we did! The four of us mentally claimed our tickets for Waitress ... some authority told everyone in line that there was no point to wait for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... are currently four options for learning communities: Terrascope ... about DesignPlus, or D+ for short! As the name suggests, it’s oriented

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older ... final which you have to make up a day before everyone else because they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  arrangements for vegetarians??" mudfud again comes to my rescue: "There are ... can get quite a wide variety of vegetarian food (and nonveg for that ... Campus) have really nice kitchens, so you can cook for yourself as well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005