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• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  is essentially a more concise version of the stream of consciousness in ... competition, get a head start in the womb!). Freshman year - sophomore year ... . The hardest part about essay writing for me is actually coming up with a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  one is a concourse Friday Seminar, in which we get to have great ... meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  shooting stars for the first time with a friend who is no longer with us ... Summer guest post series* A few dozen children stand fidgeting in lines ... , the children sang a welcoming song in Arabic for us. The head of our

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  [annotation note="a 'social member' is someone who hangs out in a living ... where it seems a little awkward. in the movie, the length constraint is ... titled "THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER." The story

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  the songs in the show is a duet between Little Sally and the main ... in a better place, where hope is always new... Ours was a short time ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a similar situation. Feel free to treat it as a chronological bucket list or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  you in their homes (for free!) for a night or so, and feed you and ... . In Rome I stayed a week in the guest room of this marathon runner, who ... somewhat nicer to be in a house, as opposed to a hostel. Also, the people who

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  you have an interest in global development and iHouse, this is a ... MIT would decrease like pigeons in the park. We talked a lot about ... year (after all, iHouse is still a really young dorm!) BTW, shameless

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  into a never-ending search for free wireless access. Today that came in the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L. Jackson prophesied so long ago, their main hamburger is indeed called a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... based on what felt right in the moment, balancing requirements ... every function we write in the class returns a visual output whether that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a ... in style - on a Chinook helicopter. As we boarded the bird at Endicott, I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. The weather conditions were far

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  Battle is free software and can be downloaded from GitHub. ... both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students. Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ...  MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... create a phenomena in which "That's so Middleditch" describes something ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  odds of getting a free pen on the wheel. Some claimed that it was 1 in 10 ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... got the job! As a college student, employment is awesome, it lets us eat

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year, on Fifth West, which is a wonderful hall filled with cats and friends ... -concert hangouts, the psets spent in silence, or sitting outside the window on a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  as FIESTACON and is sure to be every bit as fun and productive and a ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... National Conclave (NATCON), was hosted in Chicago, IL this year and was

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  that cars could drive on. 5 miles, therefore, is a lot more in Kaffa than ... A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  class, my teacher, who is a professional costume designer in New York ... the other work in this class. Our final project is making a bird costume ... . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022