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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  super cool ways. Most people on campus have seen some of Borderline’s work ... some of the weird (in a good way) stuff that you won’t really find ... the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  drowned on my way back from main campus earlier that night, and the storm ... . QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On ... entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... went over New Zealand on June 29 to catch the stellar occultation of of ... Boston Globe 3 Questions: Richard Binzel on New Horizons' closest view of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , combined with the stress from the rest of the week, was taking a toll on my ... way of communicating and interacting, and I think that I came to MIT ... because I appreciate a good nerd joke. It was the second night of CPW, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  dining halls, it's good for all of them. So if you live in Next and you ... the way back to eat; just grab your meal at Baker! Some of the FSILGs ... building. These people are underestimating the power of a kitchen. On 5th

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  'll be reading them this week and posting some of them next week. Good ... Chairman of the American Conference on Diversity. I'll be answering more ... Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  comes to curiosity and the receptiveness of kids to new ideas and the ... - you might find that you'll already be well on your way. ... Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  few good study spaces on this side of campus, so it's always well ... on MITConfessions. 9.35 - 9.45 am: i reluctantly get out of bed ... ). on my way back, i spot some people selling tshirts that are a very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  tune of the first Attack on Titan theme, which is still on my running ... ="1000"] an ABRUPT glow up[/caption] Feeling extremely on top of the world ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  exciting, since we're finally on campus, but the good parts of campus aren ... on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the ... . Dining hall food is not my thing, but on the advice of a fourth year in my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  on the presence or absence of dining (unless cost is an important ... of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... will spend on the rest of your week's meals). This means the Pilot 2021

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  all the way to Madrid, buying a new cellphone, and trying to remember ... voice and gestures, and react to you that way. Another good example is ... coworkers are even cooler. I've made a bunch of new friends here, who are all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  Three days of Manhattan ended on Monday afternoon beneath a dripping ... my left kidney on the infallibility of my internal compass. Did you know that Jess Lin now owns one of my kidneys? Somewhere along the way

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  mentioning a lot of good things about our faculty during CPW. I think it ... one. When you've chosen a field of study, you then get a new advisor in ... CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  opportunity of sharing on the blogs as open as possible to MIT students without ... collection of submissions, more than I could logically put on the blogs. But sometimes, you have to take a leap of faith on an option because, well, no

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... because our hostel doesn't serve breakfast on Sundays and apparently neither do any restaurants. We broke our fast with potato chips and a chocolate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  , but if I can finish all of them, I’ll consider myself decently on my way ... HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  become so famous due to the sheer concentration of bloggers on the floor ... . "We want to go to MIT?" "So do lots of people!" On that topic, I feel ... would be to finish your applications way early to avoid all of the stress

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  the privilege to interact with the new cool kids on the block. Can ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018