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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  compass. But he did. I hope you can understand why many people are in ... report) it was just speculation or rumor and you can't fire a person or ... ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  works for tons of people; I'm partial to the setup of frat rush, where you go where you want to go without four solid days of alphabetical order ... first year at MIT is for us to get over ourselves. What's that, you say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  name's Paul Baranay, and I guess you can call me the new kid on the blogs ... question that no one else can answer for you. You will have to overcome these ... will get through. With that said, let me officially welcome all of you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  years now, and this is the only time my parents get to see us perform. You ... feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love ... rich material for this project—as you can see below—but most people

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  ’t you switching trains? how can you just accept that the pieces of your ... i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... you remember the first few times you try something much better than the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  hard time coming up with something that works. You can not solve this ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... projects, where we're presented with a fairly real world problem, and we have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  . Weekends are for recharging. Where are you, PNR? *hosed: in a constant ... /No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... sleep this weekend. And I get carsick really easily. What is sleep? What

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  ’t get in trouble.” “No Mom, we did not get in trouble.” There was the heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs ... deficiencies, ones you might notice if you bent down and looked very, very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  . You can watch the full video here:     If you would like to watch a particular team demo a particular product, you can use these ... Sense, a wearable for firefighters that can detect if a room is unsafe to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  doing (and you can read more about the whole project here) I was most ... MIT, you can choose to take part in real cutting-edge research through ... Opportunities Program. And you can do it at the Broad, or in any academic

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  international students.   As you can see by the photos, this was a grueling ... covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... said, "Let's Get it Started in Here". (DISCLAIMER: Do not assume that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  released March 15, March 22, or any other date, you can rest assured that Ben ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  something you can’t imagine you ever lived without. I’m kind of writing this ... I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never ... [/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  shallows, where our feet can still touch the ground, and get out after a few ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for ... cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In ... tidbits beyond my intro you should know that I can have entire conversations ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  had to choose between digital or manual fabrication, you can get ... software programs you can use to create laser-cut patterns. Next, the ... excellent introduction to maker culture and allows you to get dirty in hands

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  writing samples so you can gauge your own level of writing against mine. As ... fifth grade about my future aspirations. Now, you can't argue about the ... ." But what can you do? For those interested, Sam's Mom took me to New York

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  of music when we've run out of nervous banter and can't think of ... to do? Irrational, you say? Um, sure. Go on ahead. We prefer the term ... , I'll leave you to wonder whether or not this blog is eliciting the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident ... into Burton Conner in Fall 2022 with three classes of Bombers who can

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021