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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo ’13] “With the Void, full of Powers”              ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial, climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by…

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  Now that it’s too late to turn back you’ve decided to matriculate to MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you’ve managed to get yourself into. As…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  You may have noticed that blogging has slowed down a bit over the past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the semester, MIT students…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss ’14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the choir, played oboe in band and full orchestra, and participated in every musical, but I assumed that…

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  With enrollment deadlines imminent, you can always use an extra perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won’t make or break your life, will shape…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  (1) So this past weekend was Spring Weekend (when MIT invites a singer to come to campus and give a concert), and guess who came! :D (no offense, but the…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By attending MIT, you can…

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  I haven’t been as buried as my fellow premed Chris S., ’11, who’s working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming assignments into the two to…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  For next year’s prospective applicants: This week, I’m out on the road with admissions officers from Yale and Brown meeting with students, parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I’ve ever had in my life. Saturday. I’m helping Mikey prepare for the closing show. We’re watching the Logarhythms sing.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers. Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Just the other rainy spring day when I was making my way across campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy BLT on whole…

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the following email: “I , and the department…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I’m long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven’t been posting because of a drought of excitement. Actually, there’s…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I declared my major. I declared my major. I declared my major. *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the deliberation, all the conversations and requests…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick ’12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York, centered around the Metropolitan…

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  The weather has been fluctuating lately – as has my mood. There are some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of 2015 about something you should…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, “Wait – but it’s the middle of April… aren’t you supposed to be in…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011