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• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  brisk for you! CPW RECAP I would like to give a shout out to all of the ... cannot express how pleased I was to gaze upon the MIT family and see a ... and see MIT in all of its glory. We finished off the evening with what I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and ... or how much they were on. Last year I stopped watching both shows ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  hope you guys are hanging in there and not stressing too much. I'll write ... Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  -provoking conference. Thursday through Sunday, I was in St. Louis for the annual ... collegial idea-sharing, I've returned with some thoughts on how to improve our ... conference I've attended where the participants are housed in dormitories. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like hollow shells with memories echoed in its crevices, both good and bad. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... wide range of opportunities, and I’m able to serve my country in a way

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how ... wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed ... want about what i’m feeling and how that makes me a flawed person or whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for ... 'm excited to see how different my academic life will feel now that I'm out of ... got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously forgotten about 6 required classes, which I would have to pack into senior ... up clarifications of concepts we learned in class, I get a slew of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  some direction in chats with him. "Not that Jack would expound on ... hope in some small way I might have touched theirs. ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  've been learning how to knit! I've gotten pretty far in terms of my crochet ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level ... sequences I've put in are way too similar, and essentially, the tree search is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... I meet my prefrosh Chris '12 for CPW! In theory, by this point in time ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... what in the genome is important and how organisms might have evolved. For ... undergraduate, a graduate student, and a member of the faculty. I would also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... wonder how long that will last. Though I remember that the first time I was ... fire extinguisher down the stairwell. I must have misheard that. Even in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... this summer, and I was in Cambridge. So I signed up for Alternative

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  concept. You've twisted my mind in ways I didn't know it could twist before ... equations and formulas that I learned in high school, but by making me apply ... problem suddenly makes sense.  And in those moments, I think I'm finally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Science), and probably more fields in the future. I've also taken more 18 (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the ... 'd like to go to grad school, but right now I'm not sure in exactly what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... in 2009. Yep. Definitely not a musical instrument. I got a little ... little timpani player. "He's the best timpani player I have ever seen in an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014