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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious ... with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few ... A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this ... Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her ... that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Nights) but still. You can imagine how therapeutic it was. A week ago, I saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority AXO's Domestic Violence Awareness Week campaign. I got a pink rose from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make that argument. Instead, I’ll start with a thought that passed through my mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for ... from this past semester (the MITx supplemental video-making one), I ... too. This one's a bit rough around the edges, mostly made up of video I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  'know, a blog, but also I've been writing for personal stuff. There's a ... a huge number of notebooks for this Christmas that I've been ... I can b r e a t h e. Maybe this is the best conclusion I can ever hope

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  typical pitch for a CPW event, thanks to the winning combination of gluttony and entertainment rolled into a single one-liner on the CPW schedule. I ... 's flair for enthusiastic performances. I'm not sure which group is pictured

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  ; Books I've said this for a couple of years now, but I will be reading ... Siddhartha Mukherjee - I got this from a Barnes and Noble in Tempe, Arizona ... interest in genetics and bio for me as a career path, so to that I owe it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  floor formal. Formal is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while ... regrets. It’s taken a lot of time for me to process my emotions, but I ... feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  time here at MIT. So like any good Type A personality, I've made a list ... . Every day, I've tried to do one nice, unexpected thing for someone. I ... appreciate them. Worry less & enjoy the ride. A couple weeks ago, I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  . You can still drink it for two weeks after." I have a strong feeling ... home for spring break is the first breath of air I've had in a while - and for that I apologize. MIT can give you a lot of things, but free

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  main, we are looking for bloggers with good judgment who can write ... in the office and serve as a shibboleth for student culture. We pay you for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest. Your application will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of ... at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information ... learned a bit about winter fashion, and how to dress appropriately. I was

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  , for two hours at a time, has no midterms, no final, and 6.2 out of 7 (i ... quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  the Charles River; it was originally built as a mansion for the ... Hopkins in 2006. Aside from the Nobel Prize, Riess has also won a Mac ... at the end of 1994, where Adam Riess was to play a crucial role. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and ... no control over it. See, some guys just can't grow a beard. The best you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of ... there anyway I can make a random donation of like $4.17 to the financial ... for him? Well, I was one of those people. Let me show you what that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a ... universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We ... we can. Money and financial aid will be discussed. How do you apply for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  early; providing us a mobile phone number we can reach you at during CPW ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  taught me: all that I have to be grateful for. I've got a great set of ... life for a second. Whether you're a current senior and getting excited for CPW, a current undergrad and getting excited for CPW, or a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011