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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  hometown, and yelled and jumped up and down. I never told my mom how I lost ... freshman and try it. If I'm in Boston next summer, does anyone want to ... as each semester we shuffle rooms in the house. I'll move the rest of

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... optimistic, and thought that if I am just honest in my application, wherever I ... choosing MIT. But I do wonder every so often just how much I belong here

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... college life. Would my sister Skype with me often? How could I stick all my ... friends in Central Ohio. Calm upperclassmen who taught me how to pronounce

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  hub of Maine's South Coast region. I was in Maine for three days, so I ... didn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things, because I was ... minutes. But I never believed in linear time anyway. Since my life is a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  mine. There are plenty of good schools I can go to." Mr. Conroy says more ... show up with a check in hand asking how much it will cost," she says ... . Every time it happens, I can't believe it is happening." And every time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  smartest and most thoughtful high school students in the world, I'm really interested in what you have to say about this. I'm referring to the story ... discuss them. So what I'm asking you to discuss is not in regards to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... , and one chemistry. They're all pretty similar, structurally. In fact, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  graduating seniors - I'll miss you).  Can't wait to meet 2019s in the fall! ... the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... Regular readers may know that I've admired Apple's design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since ... -7) and math (18) and minoring in writing (21W). This fall I will be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across ... ) as Melis '08 laughs at me in her warm, warm sweatshirt. I hate you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program ... in exchange for some research or teaching activities. Last week, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at ... from home was not really an option. In response, my first semester here I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at ... ,000 tiny holes (about 70 um in diameter) using a chemical etching process The sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I ... Poverty. (I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in ... Karkal, Kushal's program director in Bangalore, and I was treated like a

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• 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