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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being ... one can be a graceful Rheinmaiden while suspended 30 feet in the air I ... [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  the best they can. In the underfunded schools students seem to be ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... , Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors are women -- nearly twice the national average. And what's more, by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  definition of nostalgia, it would be the smell inside of this place. And ... Season 3 came out on Netflix recently and we binged it. The animation and ... worked on Avatar:The Last Airbender, and although this show is not as good

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  supplementary materials after the deadline, but some won’t. Be mindful of every date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet ... the clock is ticking down. Anything might happen—there could be a power

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... ?” “Honey, I wish I knew.” We ordered the pizza and hopped on the T. We ... study break for the potential GRTs. I can’t wait to play poker and meet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed ... yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great ... . Rationale: when evaluating the most direct route to your goal, be it the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... around -5 F at night, and yet I stayed (mostly) warm.   The secret to ... .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  -established, widely-accepted, and straightforward procedures, which makes me all the ... move on with my life. My grad student's policy is "you can make every ... 'm working with, and the latest in this hepatocyte-centered scientific field

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as ... , remembering that I (and that we all) have the capacity for both bravery and joy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  . On campus, furry animals like squirrels and bunnies climb up the trees ... take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  over her equations, only to be jolted back awake by the heavy beat of ... and is the Officially Recognized Commemorative Video of The Great Night ... working, this video will be to be the most important piece of art around

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  finals studying) Stud Five (the one place you can count on finding me at ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... over, I can finally blog about all the things I wanted to blog about but

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my nerdiness is futile, so I might as well be unabashedly proud of it. The second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever ... any requirements. I walk into the classroom and a bunch of people wave

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  sit down and actually catch up on my Japanese and plow through these books. But while the school year is going on, I guess they'll still be ... , two Final Fantasy 7 novellas, and I Am A Cat by Natsume Souseki. The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  . Instead, I found some paint in the lounge and painted that flag on my door ... obnoxious flag being on that door, somewhere between the layers of paint, a ... This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  with this committee and I got to know the other students on the committee ... important to realize that paths can be somewhat erratic and extremely nonlinear, however, still at the "end" lead you to a place where you can be

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  previous coursework and internship in pharma where I can clearly follow the ... ! Regularly getting off campus can provide a bit of perspective on the MIT ... to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... students are going to travel, regardless of break or not, and the only impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021