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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  out what kind of a puzzle it even is! After solving a disney music song ... this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once ... more snow...(View of Cambridge side from Boston) Alternate question

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design has even influenced two major decisions in my life as of late. 1) I ... trip to Rhode Island, a tour of their model making department (I know

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read that right: rain. For a variety of reasons, this made me less than happy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my ... ), I headed across campus to the bookstore. All of these are highly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... . he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented

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

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... , but just kind of maybe her). The fact that I am here is mindblowing ... . After that there are three planned projects of unknown length, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure ... temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  music's pretty rad. Don't worry. You kind of talk to D and W? Not so much ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that, even though we had a couple of days before spring break. "Useless fucking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... 't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends ... Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was ... .  Then, began the process of writing three blog posts, pieces of writing

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In cardinal numerical order, I will start with #2. Around this time of year, an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing ... part of me that I wouldn't actively think about writing about it, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008