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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From ... most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  find their place at MIT so there were no women living in sorority houses although there were women living in one of several independent living groups. I lived in Baker House, often referred to in those days as the largest

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  involvement in the arts, MIT has a lot to offer. Aside from the numerous student ... am a freshman (soon to be sophomore!) very much engaged in both the internal and surrounding art worlds. I am interested in the fine arts

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  will influence and solve the problems that the world faces today. In fact ... families across the economic spectrum. If circumstances change in your family ... President Barack Obama in calling for increased funding for clean energy

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  like “Paula Abdul actually isn't African American” or “McDonald's in ... observe the brain-chilling shock in all its bizarre detail: In the beginning ... smothered in wasabi and filled with crushed glass: confusing, painful, wildly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  wanted to through that in there to prove that MIT students do in fact date ... involved in romantic relationships. Well, we are huge nerds, but we do have ... adventures in Italy (which I still haven't told you about, man I'm bad at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... . Mainly, the chairs in 10-100. 10-100 is the admissions reception center

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  Oberon's orders. In addition, the words of the play haven't been changed except for a few brief instances where the actors have added in ... scene in the Mechanicals' play involved more repetitions of the word "Die

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... people in MIT's introductory writing courses!" And now, she said, she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... helpful in our math problem set group. Later, I learned that he was the top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... . So if I wasn't in my dorm room, exploring Harvard Square, or secretly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  's qualifying rounds in something like 20 years, so people around here were pretty ... games- either in bars with friends or in La Plaza de Colón, where they put ... watched the game in a bar/restaurant place. Our waitress served our taps

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if ... me in the dentist's chair. Inevitably after they've numbed one or both ... some stuff in my mouth that I can NO LONGER FEEL. It's at this point that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  enlightening. As I wrote back in February, I'm reading three heavy-duty books in the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  wrestling. Later, we both did varsity wrestling in high school, which is a ... class in the CMS department this term devoted to pro wrestling: CMS.602 Topics in Comparative Media Studies. The class is taught by Sam Ford, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  completely bore you with the details of my trip I will compose them in haiku. Drove down Saturday, hung out with my family at Mom's house in Philly On Sunday I held the Philly central meeting in Fort Washington On Monday

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006