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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... . Part of growing up is knowing when it's time to part ways with things ... challenges that will face me and I'm excited to meet new people. For those of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... spaghetti and garlic bread -- good deal, I think!). I've made meatballs twice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  and keep track of all the forces on each sphere. To simulate the cloth ... discrete bands of shading on a model, like you see in 2D animated cartoons ... , although that was a factor lol. The class focused on different forms of “fun

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to ... see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  Tuesday...there was a lot going on! Topics of the presentation sessions ... be doing when we see a bar chart, and the effects of color on how we ... check out what people are working on. If a piece of research looks

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it ... outside. After spending most of the night on the floor of a 6-person night ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  medium is predicated on the idea that a character’s (or group of characters ... it in some way, of course, to present it as song or dance or another ... on coarser movements—how to time my entry, the broad strokes of choreo

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a ... and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until ... voting against Rick Santorum on a beautiful sunny Wednesday last week in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... , which determines a song's relative "summerness" based on qualities of ... else bummed by the lack of female representation on this list? For some

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  traditions of running on our lunch breaks, running three laps around Killian ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... dome during Rush, the Master Chief helmet on John Harvard, the model of ... new ones around every turn. I remember meeting with my freshman advisor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... .) You don't have to be on your game at all times, but it's a good idea to ... hallways. Collaboration is the staple of success at MIT. Depending on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  winter. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which day to start on, because ... . If I'm feeling up to it, at lunch I'll cook a new batch of something to ... of class and meetings, and then the real good time begins. Friday is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  Mozart symphony with the guidance of Dudamel. ABOVE: It's me! On the MIT ... , vivacious, and inspiring Venezuelan conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... Arts (i.e. $75,000 cash prize and on-campus residency). In addition, he

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... that, so they will live out the rest of their lives only on my hard drive ... 's thoughts on if a topic would make a good blog or how to structure a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  -- the latest technologies, a credit card swipe at the drop of a hat, new ... good or bad thing. I've been exploring the concept of closure. My mom ... I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  of applicants we have and the limited space on campus. And the fact ... plan to use them the same way we currently do – not in a system of strict ... perfect. Some students thrive on the challenge of taking many advanced

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  find them. There's power in numbers, and there's a lot of good left to be ... Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  's only one way to know. (Huge shoutout to the many friends who joined me on ... the biggest one on campus. With an ample amount of seating and multiple ... colorful plate of cashew pilao, topped with a spicy chicken tikka masala. On

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019