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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... in full supply. I am sitting in my palatial room in East Campus as I ... mostly, uh, how did I end up here?!?!?! Anyways, unlike yesterday, I am

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  episode that I appear in is #297, so there are many, many other great ... I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... very little time in big cities like Baltimore. So I begged local ... students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the ... , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I

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

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically ... the clubs I was interested in, I ultimately decided not to join any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... chillin' in my mouth. I got back to my room and decided to spend some time

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I ... figured I should brush up on my statistics and refresh my memory about how

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  currently in print.) "I just think it's not very empowering, you know? It ... go," I say, and shuffle into the Self-Help Section before I can do ... I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  in my last post was misinformed, because when I wrote it, I was relaxed ... without waking them up. It happens sometimes. I just threw in the last ... transitioning from high school to college. So, you know, I want to bask in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... crushed under it. Seeing how easily it came down I'd say this was probably

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  my AP Physics C scores. So all in all, I was very happy to see my ... organized in one handy folder, but since I already bored you with that topic, I'll leave it out of this entry.) The last piece of information in my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  so we can use conservation of energy. Everything in orange is energy ... 'm reviewing and going over while studying for the test I have in this class on ... angular momentum equations until I get the variables I want. We'll see how

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored and how irrelevant many of them are to what i currently do. in ... feeling stupid. avoiding embarrassment as in: i worried that if i changed my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  ...it sounded so different from how it did on Youtube. I still managed to come in ... Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

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

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  old self couldn't. I can be loud and cringey in the dining hall, talk ... year, I've felt a decided shift in the air. I've mentioned it before ... available. I waited in line for 20 minutes. Normally, irritation would itch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012