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  Somewhat Random A little news bite.

  

  several other appearances in my time at MIT: I was pretty excited when Book 6 came out. And I also wore rockstar sunglasses when the Goblet of

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic ... Tech, MIT's student newspaper -- you can see those comics and more at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  if I managed to find balance at MIT, then the rest of my life should be ... that balance. And doing so has come at the cost of my grades which has ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  granted the convenience of having my friends in the same dorm, or at least ... Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  at its finest Supposedly it provides 1/3 of all the electrical power to ... of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... fend of fictional post-apocalyptic bad guys. At one point he asked the ... , sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  bouncing at the thought of seeing animals alongside going on fun rides. We ... mini games. Your points are tallied at the end of the ride and compared ... , especially at amusement parks. But here, and now, at the age of 20 years old

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Wednesday, and Friday, I was invited to interview at one of my other top ... Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and ... I just returned from seeing an LSC free sneak preview of I Heart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time ... , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I'm really bad at guessing the ending of anything. Even mystery movies ... off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... going to learn anything at all? And that scared the crap out of me – the ... those of you who don’t see your interests aligning with engineering at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  performing all kinds of outrageous intellectual feats at the whims of the ... they could possibly mean. At some point, one of my friends decided to try ... the 31 passages. Combing through "The Eye of Argon" at 3am with two very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  waving rainbow pom poms and cheering at the top of their lungs. The day ... importance of iteration. We performed this test several times at the local fire ... For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products ... experience in a design team at a modern product development firm. As part of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... -ever rehearsal with digital sheet music this Monday! When I joined MITWE at the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... of getting in based on your test scores/GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019