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• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  as Ruth's term paper for 17.483: US Military Power. And longer than ... significant in either A Prayer for Owen Meany or Donnie Darko. Joe's Dad takes a break for lunch while Joe does an interpretive dance. I think we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  schooldays. My Athena locker also contains my schedule for this past spring ... was little, I used to always get a 96-box of Crayola crayons for the ... things...) I'm sure I've freaked everyone out enough for one day, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... Foundation, the same folks who funded MIT's new Broad Institute of genomics for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  Doctor (resident), engineer for Sony Consumer Electronics, medical school ... for Exxon-Mobil, city planner, chemistry PhD student, and, oh yeah ... -listening hotline, for the score. Nightline's greatest service is in peer counseling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  : n. MIT jargon for prospective student]. It involved many late nights ... hosted meetings with the MIT student hosts for CPW. One meeting overflowed ... attend this meeting, but for those who were there, they received their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as a project manager for NASA. He goes back to rural India to a village ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  plushie named Nat (short for Gnat). I’ll keep updating this log, probably ... ; definitely lots more legroom than on a plane, and, for the moment, there ... leadership election for a little longer, and then start reading something

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... . for one, software engineering apps feel very silly. instead of crafting a good application for a dozen or so carefully selected universities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... for an admissions or selections committee is HARD. It's not like ... called an Application Essay, Objectives for Graduate Study, Personal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing ... than the 12 from last year, the Class of 2010. For more information on ... Stata Center (for the unique architecture? =p). I think the really cool

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a ... earning letter grades for passing that do affect GPA, but you still will

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  moved out of Next House. As someone who lived there for all four years of undergrad, it felt weird. But I’ll leave post-graduation feelings for another ... was taking British Airways. I pretty much bummed around at the gate for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When ... I spearheaded the organization and logistics for our three events. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... community centre every weekend for whatever class I was doing that season

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship ... imitate the classical style from ancient greece and rome. for instance, many

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs types (though, he did stress that this was really just for fun). Curious ... few other tests besides.   Debunking Myers-Briggs My result for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... made me feel very welcome. Now, I can’t believe I’ve only known them for ... M. '18, Megan P. '18, and Anika Y. '18 (not pictured) for making House

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Thank you for reading by Jess K. '10 ADMIT ME PLZ? by Chris S. '11 ... story for you... by Chris M. '12 The Re-Froshening by Piper '13 Alum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010