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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  club i like stories and writing and because of that i now like genetic ... what i wanted. i loved writing and stories. cramming them into my head ... found that i wasn’t bad at it. (i wasn’t good, but that’s another story

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  Paper Menagerie and Other Stories: the namesake is the only short story to ever win all three short story awards, so good ah La casa de los

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  genres of music, clothing, and stories that are unique to the African ... could explore. I began to be able to listen to Uber drivers tell stories ... truth as possible. Behind every sound and stroke of language is a story

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  would be back from school anytime soon, unloading stories about their ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily ... and worries—stories to write, classes to pass, codes to debug, friends

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  story - I loved how much I loved reading Kate's blogs, whether about math ... -Cultural Culinary Story." When he gets to campus, Emad hopes to join Live Music ... , they'll be able to tell you more about their own personal stories, which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  makes them special is the stories that the tour guides share. I've known ... . And of course, the story of Oliver Smoot never gets old for me ... 've heard Alina's story, I'll need to drop in on the others guides' tours to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  kidding. It's a big deal. The story behind the first Thanksgiving goes as ... big feast together to celebrate a successful harvest. But every story ... Thanksgiving (because we all know the story wasn't that simple, and the way we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  that I should write a book telling stories about real scientists and ... ), but there are no standard answers about the best way to tell a story. I ... impress? Tell stories like you would over lunch. Get out there and tell us

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  tell a story well? What makes a good story? How do you create a story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  helped design. You can read their story, as written by Jeff Roberts '01 ... stories of their battles, whether they won or lost them - in the former case ... where they're going. It's a long and colorful story. Those of us here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  news. Below, I've highlighted four major media stories featuring Marilee ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission ... Correspondent Jim Fallows. In the lead story of the magazine's first-ever college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I ... . Long story short, I had a less-than-ideal UROP experience the summer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  The Associated Press has a nice story about "Gap Years" that has been ... LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... down. Life, college, career -- it's not a race. The other story today on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  Fenian Cycle, stories about the hero Finn mac Cumhaill, famous across all ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of ... story which could be improved. Finally, the author came up with a few

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  . The tl;dr is that every story follows one [annotation note="this has ... hopes of making their story stronger, and I wouldn’t be surprised if media outlets prioritize stories that follow a set of guidelines"]core outline

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  magazine. I read the first story sitting on the floor in the hallway ... ’s story reminded me of a toned-down, literary version of the next-to-last chunk of Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Why do artists tell stories of failure? Was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  paper, how they storyboard, stories of what it’s like to be a queer artist ... of many stories and feelings and dreams and nightmares. I don’t like ... nontrivial effect on the way that we navigate the world. This is the story of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  Against Humanity, traveled, written stories and had my first midterm (the ... a higher frequency than I did last semester. The stories haven ... the blogs (for which I’m always grateful) and I had a bunch of stories

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  decided to tell you my ED story. Last year, around this same time, I was ... that is represented in the student body. Everyone comes here with a story to share, and it is very rewarding to discover the stories of your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High ... . Now here's a really, really cool story. I wrote for my high school ... story a couple of weeks ago and am currently working on my second. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005