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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out ... was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... my father has a hard time letting things go, and that the indigestion

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  and boy are my arms tired." (rim shot) But seriously, I have been on the ... that my seat could be used as a floatation device even though the entire ... Tucson native inhabitant; the rattlesnake. There I am in the middle of my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I ... Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  all your responses to the lynn/lonn/line poll. My high school math ... , yeah? I'm Lynn. What's your name?" Sam: "Oh, nice to meet you. My name ... that is my superhero origin story. Anyway, I had a really, really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  Kidding about the annual part. :-) Catching up with my blog comments ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  wanted my room to be as clean as possible, with everything straightened and ... freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  from my first sunday roast with some grad school friends and ... interesting or would make a difference in the world, things in my personal life ... part of my research giving them more math materials. i've worked with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  quest my sophomore year to [annotation note="actually I think each ... Bowie, a postdoc at my lab suggested. Another postdoc brought up a video game character I had never heard of. “Oh my god, you actually made Harry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  and can you follow back 'cause it's my birthday?" No one cares what I ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 ... my trip to Switzerland, and it was a whole year ago. The Highline

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... area, to live with my five friends. We moved not for any job ... were originally supposed to move to my uncle's house upon arrival on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This might be because my ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  blogging before and I think I have a great opportunity. My fraternity, Phi ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... with my classmates was built around highly specific traits. Our head boy ... easy friends with everyone. As one of the school’s unofficial nerds, my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog ... , why it bounced around and persisted in my head, fermenting and ripening ... June. Teachers from my high school showed up with students. My friends

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... was still open so that I could give them my MIT Reply Form, and wait ... work on you this weekend." Well, right he was. When Matt Mcgann saw my

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... . But now, it's all almost over. I finished all my finals (passing them is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , things are, as you might imagine, quite busy around here. I'll do my best ... just wondering, since i had my sister do me a favour by filling out the technical details in the MIT admission form (like my achievements etc.) would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment,[/annotation] or because my standards for “slept well” are incredibly low. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023