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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... think one day my coach just announced it to the team. Now, as a captain

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... get conversations going, pass around my resum√©, and ask specific

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  . "Wait...beat! That's it!" I called my friend David - a man so metal, he ... guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic bomb. We'd play death ... my headphones, ready to unleash percussive chaos. As the zombies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... nigh un-un-packable. So here's my shot at giving you the blog equivalent ... drawings. And you know, try not to make it cost a bajillion dollars. My

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  further ado, let me tell you why. In no particular order, my classes: 7 ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field ... my fantasies, I imagine 4.111 being like Project Runway, where

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my ... the “2nd-Semester Senior” (SSS) wave early. My friends and I started ... the realization that I have 0 chance to go to my early school, I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  under construction my freshman year and noticed my sophomore year that ... a showtime into my schedule. ABOVE: Central Square Theater's new ... of such plays. As I took my seat in the large black box theater, I read

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  that my name is Dave and I'm the new Communications Manager for ... , reckless. My job is to tell you what MIT is really like and then let you ... need is a crash course in all things MIT, so I've spent my first few

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I ... community. My exhibit was titled "Pieces of Paradise," and I formally ... of thematic umbrella that reaches over much of my work. Here are a

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... sometimes marvel at how informative my sentences can be.) By now, the quick ... won the Physics Question Identification contest on my blog a few months

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... either of those. My e-mail yesterday, from one "Charlie Card" of ... dark. I set up my tripod, got my camera all set, and waited. Sure enough

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  you ask. I really found out about filk music through my addiction to ... cultivating irises, I assumed that most of my peers just wouldn't be interested ... Four. Recently, after I'd learned that several of my friends were also

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  catchy jungle drums just don't mean anything else in my mind), we returned ... original; I could close my eyes and imagine I was playing the video game ... since getting my hands on a program, I was waiting for the last piece, a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  everything over, update all my entries, and be done with it. Step one, copy the files. Easy. Step two, change all the internal links on all of my ... my web space. I CTR+A'd inside my admissions blog folder and then

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  different at MIT. Not in a bad way at all, in a hilarious way. Since my first ... have compiled online. I've gone through and pulled out a few of my ... little fuzzy on the details." ***** "I wasn't alone. I was with my computer

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  the Fe-y?(triple pun!))) Wow, sorry about that. Back on track, my HASS ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we ... 'll be with you 'til we die!". Also my personal favorite: [translated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  completely by chance. Case in point: About a month ago, I was heading from my ... game with my friend Cody '11. As I was passing by the grassy "Dot ... of. I responded by pointing across the river towards my fraternity

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  once. On the day of the final, I made plans with my friend Martin to meet him and his family to watch the game. On my way to meet them, I passed ... celebrations for your enjoyment. I met up with my friend Martin and we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Many of my readers know by now that if you ... find a copy of Billy Collins' poem, "The Introduction." My reasoning was ... , because the last time I'd been in any talent competition, it had been at my

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  there at Cambridge in my junior year than during my time here at MIT. The ... a single year at Cambridge, than in my first two years at MIT. This is ... other side of the Atlantic. I could also talk about my own great travel

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008