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• 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 participate in at least one UROP during their undergraduate years!” Coming into MIT, we knew we wanted…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map beforehand. If you…

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook, see videos below, or read the product brochures. 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an Information Session about MIT. Afterwards, I was visiting some teachers when I walked into my former chemistry teacher’s…

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I’ve lived and breathed in the ever-growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time again, I would spend hours locked away in a…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  I’ve stopped watching this duck being luxuriously vacuumed long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  There’s a lot that happens after 5PM. 1 // Sunday coming home I visited home last week over Thanksgiving Break. Boston is amazing, but there are some things that New York…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut – nocturne in c minor – Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Highlights from my schedule for the past 3 weeks.   Each year, fall semester…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we’re still heads-down reading applications and meeting in committee. No final decisions for Early Action have been made. We’ll release…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  At MIT, every student has an advisor — in fact, throughout their time here, every student will have multiple advisors! It starts in freshman year with our first-year advisors; once…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for many hours and in one…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year, one of my friends from hall,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very contemplative lately. In my…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It’s been a “pset, sleep, blog –– pick two” kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I’ll…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth – Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar Halperin, Etienne Abelin Notable highlights on my calendar the past two weeks. An adaptive skateboard for 6.810 final project. Spent over…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races, religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in, and sometimes in the middle…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn’t really something…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and decided to walk to Trader Joe’s to do my grocery shopping. There’s two nearby, but the…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever family friends gushed over their…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018