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  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -valedictorians set for MIT Originally posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009 by Adam Freeman ... Burfield play the same sports and share the same friends. But unlike most ... minute older than Chandler. As for competition between the two? It was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... warmer locale than Boston. Unfortunately for them, I am currently sitting ... many sweatshirts you have on, they are no match for the terrible wind

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  Yesterday was a big day for the news media, what with the automotive ... Latino students paraded through the halls of the dorm playing accordion and ... already posses a Spanish nickname (a must-have for recognition as a member

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  test. -Learn to play squash for continuous time intervals longer than 15 ... the banner, for some unknown reason. Anyway, as much as I admire the ... Course 2 or 6 major for the rest of eternity, or at least until someone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  stroking for the day, the real reason is because today was so cool, so ... listening to Sabar drum music. Today we got to actually play them: not ... ] "What did you have for dinner? '[whatever you ate for dinner

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  those buildings on the north end of campus. Of course, I played it off ... for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I ... study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  yet. After that, I'll probably hang around for the so-called festivities ... :00, 2:30, 3:00 or 3:30 for a fun-filled tour of the Tester Lab, down in ... choir for a few semesters. Meet the Bloggers (8:30 PM - 10:00 PM) -- Meet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  college card, which, as you've been told many times before, is given FOR ... at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... features my favorite Diana creation--this mutilated prom dress for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... . Academics come first for MIT-bound scholar Jeremy McGee began to show signs ... rocket scientist. I can remember playing with this airplane that I had when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  blogger for five long (and excellent) years. I have tried SO MANY Oreo flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I ... statement may not be true: the more unusual ones are often only available for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape ... crying in bed, the exercise journal I kept and meals I skipped for the sake ... . I've been sitting in bed trying to read notes for 6.867--the class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at ... morals. Would you work for a company that works closely on military weaponry? Are you comfortable working for a tech company notorious for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  my own entry about the same subject for a while now. I have also been follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my ... could potentially be a very over-excited description of what I've done for

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele ... , admiring all the trees. For the past two years, I’ve spent more time away ... research, how she structured edits, how she searched for agents. It doesn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  . I love all kinds of sports and will be playing for MIT's field hockey ... the amusement park next door for free, get to stay outside all day and ... [whatever that is], and I've worked as an intern for IBM since I was 7 but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  (fancy terms for the number of changes people made to the website over time ... ! Let me know in the comments if you read something cool or play with a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial ... produced by Haus residents) played on a loop. x A more complete

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  feedback from the web. Greg snapped a picture of me playing some As Tall As ... Greg is going to come join me for the east coast version. Making things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  missed Leap Day. =( 1992, 1996 - Probably playing in the sand pit ... spent 2 months preparing for it and was so depressed when I got 116, 4

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008