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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  make sure that your ideas stand up to all of them, which is ikispiration ... indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... about Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is most appealing to a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating y or any of the numerous other sentiments that focus on the status of ... ? every relationship is going to produce a decent amount of new anxiety. in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces ... loaned out to students -- is open to the general public. Students view the ... goes on, as we add pieces to the collection each year. Selected students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the ... masks we had to wear during Sleep No More (which is by far the ... ! Both of our art is in it! 18) Bottle caps of the first ginger we ever

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  kinds of interviews. This is not meant to be an end all, be all guide to ... . If you do not like talking to people a lot or hours and hours of ... product manager is that you wear a lot of different hats. You're going to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  there, we wandered to the Reading Terminal Market, which is apparently ... machine which is turned on full blast during all the performances). My ... different thicknesses--my own palate, of course, is not discerning enough to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  the hem of my gown, and put on some nice but comfortable shoes (which I ... capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal ... Worlds. Ben forgot to mention the major plotline of the movie in which ... exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  potency of “interestingly” on sentences that are actually interesting, like this one, which began with “One.” One could say that “one” is one of the ... ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  told me to not spend a dime on food, which I, sadly admit, did, and I saw ... classes or read about on the internet. It was a ton of fun. The second day ... So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of ... parts, is reminiscent of the college application process which, if I ... aware of how you act in certain situations and reflect on whether or not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  benefits from moving on to a university, whether it is MIT or wherever else ... "toughest to get into." And where is MIT on the lists of "School Runs Like ... interests while admitting or is it only the marks on paper and olympiads that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  of harm's way; check out the banking facilities, check to see which ... If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can ... reveal the deepest secrets of the X-Knot to us. So, the idea is that ... American children's songs to which either Joe or I do not know all the words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... bakery on the way to work.    I showered quickly, put on one of my ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... Cambridge that are my favorite places to walk around or visit. MIT is quite

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I ... . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for which Boston is famous. My parents have done it two or three times while I ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006