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• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s ... = Lighting Design; 21G.501 = Japanese 1; 14.73 = The Economics of World Poverty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... score became so much the purpose of the exams that when I got into college ... expensive prep classes. The supposed reward of credit was long forgotten

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me ... . Following the badass "Massachusetts Institute of Techno" hack, I got someone to snap this pic of me with Mollie and Jessie. The infamous festival

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  things. My failings at life from the last couple of weeks include tripping ... myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice ... whatever), and repeatedly getting caught on the laces of my badass new shoes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of events in past semesters have been tempered by the ongoing gloom of our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  process, with all the tranquility and order of the Republican National Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our ... ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  I think) Getting my first taste of Chipotle with the bloggers Spending a lot of time in the Unified Lounge (Unified is a course 16 class ... . During July, I worked for the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy yet unfamiliar basement of Walker Memorial. It was one of the first ... name of my show conveys the unique combination of music I play; that is

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... easily find your printouts in the massive pile of stuff that has been ... found the slice of cake in the kitchen the next morning, and decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors ... & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of ... of main campus where I spend my days. This geographic density, the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Matt McGann ‘00 Name: Matt McGann; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY

  

  idealism & commitment to the mission of helping the world Favorite things ... Red Sox Favorite movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sneakers, The ... Name: Matt McGann Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  with me tonight voices the entirety of her internal monologue aloud even ... ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... , cereal, and toast, and the little plastic squares of jam that remind me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... of campus and bought overpriced staff paper and suffered the pains of ... free coupon books at the MIT bookstore instead of one to mitigate the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3 ... of The Three Little Pigs where the wolf is a health code inspector

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  ago now (goodness, I'm old). And it's the age of many of our excellent ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel ... have been alive! Next year's MIT Nobel? Well, the minds of the Nobel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... for a sweet price, so I'm now the proud new owner of a "Real Camera." I know (knew?) absolutely nothing about cameras so I put in the effort of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... of state laws. Back in TX, if you were in the top 10 percent of your ... factor." MIT was one of the schools I applied to because it was "that

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006