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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don't ... make a sound, since I definitely don't look awesome when I play the ... ) - so I didn't get a chance to practice before then. Disaster. My first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my ... haven't the slightest clue what that means, so if you do, please enlighten ... -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  know that this entry won't be helpful to everyone out there, but ... the best: (1) Examkrackers - I didn't get to use their "1001 Questions ... flashcards with me when I was riding the T somewhere. I admit it's kind of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  . Projector won’t turn on? The “emergency” facilities number actually gives you a menu option for “this isn’t an emergency” and will then solve all your problems. Facilities worker says the projector isn’t going to be

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Opera. Good design gives you everything you need and nothing that you don't ... , missing the 1 Bus, then getting stuck on the T between Hynes and Copley for ... the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T. for short) is producing the opera

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  somehow she escapes. It wasn't long before we loaded up her station wagon ... way longer than the packaging said, but you know what? I didn't see anyone else out there eating pizza. Though to be fair, I didn't see anyone

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  requested a conflict exam in a class where the professor didn't offer conflict ... the same time from three classes that didn't offer conflict exams ... run, and the good fight had been fought. Isn't that domo-rolly thing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  every other week (no pset this week, YAY!). 5.12 (Orgo) hasn't yet caused ... starts with, "I don't know why I remember..." I wrote the following - a ... consequently edited. Please don't judge me too harshly! :'( Now, without

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  isn't the point of FIRST, or rather, it's a means, not an end. The point ... excited. Trust me, you haven't seen excited until you've seen 6,000 students ... competition video here because a grainy 480x360 video can't do it justice - you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  penurious radiators, I can't help but rhapsodize my midsummer memories of ... writing classes. The authors here aren’t the most polished, professional ... with the letter V and ended with the letters “for Vendetta,” you can't

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don't ... Jewish holiday! Oh, wait, no it doesn't. I don't get those days off from ... and hit the road by 9:30; however, traffic wasn't bad and we still found

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... wakarimasuka?" She didn't know where it was exactly, but she looked at the map ... golf but wasn't very good at it. She told me she and her husband were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... company since it was like a "omg-I-can't ... , on the other hand, explicitly stated that he didn't even consider

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don't ... , the average MIT student is more than conscious of problems that don't

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came from, we don't know who might have put them there, but they were quickly ... fleas (though I certainly haven't heard a word of thanks) sleeping in my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can't ... sophomore—to her first class, 6.00. Course 6 isn't really my cup of tea ... EAsT CamPUS tours, we met yet another Facebook prefrosh. Despite the

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  's questionably-colored carpet. I don't know what it is about me and public transportation and babies. Though I don't visit home particularly frequently, going ... 've changed into your footsie pajamas (okay, I don't have footsie pajamas, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  'm done with! Which is both good and bad. For one thing, it means I won't ... , that way you won't get screwed by airport exchange rates" plan. So I have ... morning at the Museo del Prado. I didn't even know what was at the Prado, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  . Unfortunately Sauza couldn't make the picture, and the little girl, well, we don't ... following format from Milena: Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Didn't spend a lot of ... , technically this isn't part of CPW, but it is in Boston, so it's worth

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  same year. I didn't really know any current students, and I surely was ... was made up, so there wasn't really anything else I could do. August 22 ... night: misery of no air conditioning. i don't really know much about my

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007