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• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... us a happy pi day, and I realized that today was the day, and in t ... glorious day, and it is cold in Boston, but I still find it beautiful outside

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  lived in EC, and my experience likely would have been different had I been ... —these are just my opinions, and even though I'm a senior, I've lived in East ... mates whenever I enter and exit. In the renovation, the Burton and Conner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... hour traffic), I picked a direction randomly and ended up in Scarsdale ... 're ever in Scarsdale, Seven Woks makes some great Moo Shu. I'll pause here

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  good things i have seen  recently, in no particular order at all. come ... ? i didn't even know disney made songs that weren't in movies! bill ... are a lot of bad things in this world, but there's a lot of good too. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  reaction times so i assumed ddr would be a struggle [caption id ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand ... jump every ten or twenty beats, the climax had 27 jumps in a row. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said that I was Senior Haus; I was president in 2008, ran Steer Roast in 2009

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... by his drawing, "Central European Time." I thought I would be able to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... my satisfaction, I headed by the Chemistry Education Office to hand in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... he was saying, and I certainly didn't think about the ways that I would ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... in the next couple of weeks :) A final note: the house I’m staying in has this sign by the front door, which I thought I would share… "She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... ?!??!!?" and "wow, just wow..." I guess I was more focused on being there "in ... balls wasn't an accurate representation of my CPW (I only went in there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching ... dance floor. I know Cassi Hunt. In fact, she was my "date" to the boat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  another test, which was just in major scales but still hard because I suck ... page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and easily find your printouts in the massive pile of stuff that has been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... , as I sat on the T, I would note down everything I had worked on that ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  mother finally came home late at night, she would come in to her room and ... I had cable and I would just watch the weather channel over and over ... vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... 1967. Haacke decided that he would do a line drawing in the sky with a ... 21M.A12 Does. Good luck to all you EA applicants! I was in your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011