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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  tap into the wealth of creative gems embedded in all the scientific ... inclusion in a glossy magazine published annually at the end of the spring ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  . Anna's research is in the area of Japanese popular culture and is focused ... ,"On the one hand, Japanese hip-hop admittedly takes a lot of its roots from ... the other hand, a lot of artists intentionally take a lot of their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out this week's MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal ... best known for the transformation of the hyperbolic cosine function into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  fraternity on campus, but without the ties of sisterhood that bind the women I ... play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the ... dinner whenever possible with the residents of the house enjoying the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you ... affordable) way to relieve some of the stress MIT can give. And trust me, there

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about

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

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  Oxenfree and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Doing these classes also helped me realize that the idea of pursuing an PhD or Master's in media is not ... a long time for me to realize that jobs are jobs at the end of the day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation. Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one ... opportunity to implement all those bad ideas they've had over the course of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for ... suggested that we join the herds of tourists and walk the trail. It was ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  that as of last night, more than half of the applicants have already ... substantial time to process all of these forms that come in right at the ... to finally click the "Submit" button? For those of you who finished

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across the Harvard Bridge from MIT. We had an exquisite dinner of cheese, meat, and chocolate fondue... paid for by the Office of Undergraduate Advising

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely ... the Student Center. There are nine different varieties of truffles in ... In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of Massachusetts? With flip flops of course! Try again. While I must say that flip ... the example of what not to do ie I was wearing board shorts, flip flops

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of ... The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... price of a subcompact. Dude. I opened the door and was flooded with "new ... all of the places I'd be traveling in the next five days, some of them

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... score became so much the purpose of the exams that when I got into college ... expensive prep classes. The supposed reward of credit was long forgotten

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... this, I had approximately an hour-long break before the chaos of my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016