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• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow ... small prize of $15. In my last post, I wrote about Game 1: Hide and Seek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  pursue two years of research in high school, and I loved it. I loved it so ... fact. Even so, I am still 100% in favor of the traditional information ... Some point back in April, after all the decisions had come in, my mom

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  ' classes you attend, I'm interested in what you do between classes, any ... been reading the blogs (and they are wonderful,) but I am still in a ... on what I've read, it seems like everyone maintains a balance in what

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  college was I going to land at in the US? I had a girlfriend then. We would ... never cracked a 6:30 mile in high school - I did enjoy the meets. My goal ... is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  team bonding events because I would stay in my partner's room most of the ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... . although I had no relationship experience, or life experience in general, pea

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering) and an MSIII cadet in the Army ROTC program ... applied to attend West Point's summer training. I was placed in a company of

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  do well in my interviews before I'm accepted, but it's nice to have ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can ... Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it ... with a shiny, heavy cube before this, i would not have thought anything ... , just because i found myself thinking more in dialogue/monologue style in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  . Aside from that, I still live at ZBT as the resident advisor (GRT in ... classes in 2003 (3.091, 21A.109, 18.01A, 8.01 and a seminar). I don't know ... a class in every department so that's kind of cool. When I first

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ? Improbable. Graduation came and went and in just three months I would be ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to ... , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  months after. the hallways in my own dorm would haunt me. i did not call it ... i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  seriously considering schools in the U.S. for college; I have my fingers ... in Cambridge, Massachusetts :) Jeanne and I - with Prospective '15s ... IN SALEM!! I didn't get to meet either of them though :( (4) Gratitude

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  myself I was starring in. And for the most part, I would argue these ... high school, I would make jokes with friends that once in college I could ... , researching potential classes I could take, looking at majors I knew I would

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... yanked from the audience and covered in bubble wrap. (I'd show some photos

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  newest little brother in my fraternity. I departed from home at 4 pm in an ... decision. Aside from eating more candy than my dentist would be proud of, I ... This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final ... series that I started watching way back in my senior year of high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon ... (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in ... So, now that you're on campus, you have all this free time, right? I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008