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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... much top secret). - You can't live in your fraternity during your ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... right place. "....", I would really like to try to help however I can. I ... someone who can. All, I am sorry to have to remove or edit parts of that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs ... remind you that I am getting a degree in June. It is my final term here, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... few people who have done this before. I don't know how true the PhD/head scientist combo is because most of the people I know with PhD's have stayed in

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... extravaganza? I can’t name one mass killing kids could celebrate. They shouldn ... . In the morning, I was woken by a harrowing newscaster voice on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... ’re curled up in the kitchen watching Veronica Mars, and when I’m done with ... which here means “falling asleep with my laptop open.”) I got in on Pi

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  your application as a PDF. You should do this so you can see how we' ... office will reopen on Tuesday, January 2nd. That said, I thought it was ... things you can find just by looking around on the site -- for example

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  , which will continue through the show. I hope you can join us! Paul and ... hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... ? I swear that’s the last time I’ll ask, mostly because very soon CPW

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  -on in the MIT community - so much so that I generally find out about ... my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... Hadron Collider project. Isn't it beautiful? I have no idea how they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  the last 6 years I have lived in 4 houses, had 3 careers, and 2 kids. I think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and ... Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving ... extremely interesting, and I really want to go on more trips with them in the future. I hope that I can go to the quarry again next year and make this an

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  of the Kevlar fuselage. How did you steer the plane in the taxi ... /Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... yardstick to measure how far into the semester I am...wow, this semester ... dominate the classes that I'm in now...(spent too much time on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... Asia sometime in the future). Thailand The first stop was Thailand. I ... , including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... matter whether it goes in the trash or into the mouth of somebody I know ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... lively that I can't help but get excited about the subject material. This ... summer. I'm also waiting on my UROP paperwork to go through, so I can start

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art History Favorite things about MIT: Personally, I love all the stereotypical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  while I ignore the box o' meds under my bed and see if you can hook me up ... 's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... later, after waiting in an exam room and wishing I were dead or passed out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  out the delicious surprise I found in my closet: built-in hangers! YES! It is going to be an excellent year... I can see it already ... Note: I freely admit I am stealing the title "A Room with a Vieux

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  , Matt '08, Brian '08, and a couple of people I can't make out in the dim ... everywhere. Kathleen '10 ended up living on 5th East! I can tell that she ... I promised you 5th East Hall Rush photos, so here they are. 3rd East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006