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• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• 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 ... a class (Harmony and Counterpoint I) and added another class (Harmony ... obscene expensiveness of staff paper* and made a pear salad and harmonized a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close ... which place a big emphasis on hands-on work and building. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy/musical pun name only rivaled by the MIT Logarhythms). [This is my second live

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  female fighter pilots. She flew the F/A-18 Hornet. At MIT, she is the ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that ... -status idiot," is a caricature of televised political pundits. Here's the video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag ... had artichoke hearts and emmenthal.) Kim Brink '10 is all dressed up ... ... lamb, shrimp, all raw... you cook it yourself on a skewer in a marinade

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  that “school is a great place to be, so take the time to mentally explore and learn a lot about yourself.” (The photo is from the MIT ... , MIT grad Dr. David Berry knows a thing or two about success. Though he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest ... insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to ... place. You see, I'm a freshman, and therefore my current resume consists

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  (one branch of the national Camp Kesem organization) is a student group ... , sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... in time to head back to Boston/MIT for the summer :) This is where I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We ... just appeared the other day and mine is, as far as I know, in its final form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is ... hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... have a good breakfast, which is why Sunny's exists. A short walk down Mass Ave is all it takes before you are seated to a nice hot

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process ... 't admit anyone until all of the reading is done and we come together as a ... Rolling Admissions model. This is the model used a number of schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for ... . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which ... non-freezing temperatures. Also, the food was gr9. Whenever I plan a ... wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... .... Yes. Yes, that is in fact what you think it is. A monkey made entirely ... place is actually a school....

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  was so much fun! I did take one pretty bad fall on my chin that left a ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... of the story here is that no one is a shoo-in for MIT, but the opposite ... has a stratospherically high suicide rate. This is a contention

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005