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• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  what's cold. Dinner ended a little late on Saturday, and I wasn't able to ... stretch of sidewalk didn't have a crosswalk and the time was ticking down ... one. (Don't try this at home). I decided to run across Mass. Ave with

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  for a reason to admit you. In other words, we don't connect with pieces ... . Check this out - I didn't even break 1400 on my SAT's, and yet I had the ... ." Shocking, isn't it? ;-) Fun fact about yourself: I've recorded 7 CD's since

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  directly to admissions committee. Make your voice count! Don't use your whole ... more that the SAT, I suggest that you do the same. 3. Don't let the cost ... to know that you can't afford a College/University: First you apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  groups. When I say that "5th East went to Six Flags", I don't mean "the ... community went to Six Flags". You don't stop being a Child of Florey (another name for a 5th East-er, if you couldn't figure that out) because of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that ... disctinction of being both motorists and pedestrians (see entry title), we weren't ... in this picture too but I couldn't find anyone passing by who would lay

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  : (Macgregor windows have screens that can't be removed -- rather sensibly, since ... also don't realize it until you're an upperclassman, but most of the ... grades in course 7 classes, but don't go to class. Hello? 3. Read the book

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  photographer and the pretty colors didn't come out very well. :( You should go to ... cats, like Nietzsche here: Some halls and dorms allow cats, some don't ... 'll notice - students don't actually call Dorm Rush "REX", except when they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or ... Water). I don't actually know if Vitamin Water makes any money though; of ... over 2,500 hours. I don't know what our plans are quite yet for the 4

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  (Martha and the Vandellas) * Locomotion (Little Eva) * You Ain't Nothin' But ... ) * Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell) * You Can't Always Get What You Want ... There" * Nora Bayes - "You Made a Chicken of Your Mother, but You Can't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... want to be somewhere where we won't be disturbed by visitors, where we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was ... not require the SAT II Writing exam (a test that i don't like much ... the schools clearly were excellent institutions, I didn't really feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  , I didn’t know anything about these groups, so I hope this helps ... ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t dancing—I remember learning the dances in the movie Another

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

  

  . Thus, although there isn’t much “official” overlap between MAD ... architecture department’s website states: [T]he Bachelor of Science in Art and ... feel a bit aimless in the major if you don’t already have something in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I ... only because it satisfied a major requirement, and I couldn't find the ... without having dropped a class, and I had finally done it, and I didn't feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to ... point to an essay. Don't worry, you can move it around later, but just put ... that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table ... milk. I didn’t end up learning the more interesting fast dishes until now ... vegetables when you don’t feel like putting in effort or eating hot dogs beef

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  that was it. it didn’t feel like the end of anything. the last comic that ... realized that no, it was all over and had been all over. but there wasn’t ... finally conquered my drooping eyelids. i didn’t have time to catch up to a

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  the inside. sadly, our room didn’t have any, but most of the lounges in ... everything a wall should be and shouldn’t be at the same time. they add depth ... labeled OTB is a lounge on the other side of the wall. no, i don't know if

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  if I wasn’t good enough for DesignPlus? I ranked DesignPlus first ... second iteration of the program. Admittedly, I didn’t go to a lot of the ... ="115567" image2="115568" image3="115569" image4="115570" /] I can’t overstate just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  important lessons: 1) carefully save your stuff, 2) don't underestimate the ... , and the screen isn't on here yet because I made it removable. It ... , not images. Unfortunately, this means that I didn't realize until after I received my PCB that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025