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• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  things, teamwork things, social justice things, and a whole lot of other ... i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  and sleep, but gained the priceless skill of taking naps anytime (#1, 4 ... answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... -perforated silence of Cape Cod two full months before the season of tourists and ... innocence and unadulterated curiosity; for me, all the literary value of ages

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  break after handing in a copy of my master’s thesis. The first day I was ... with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do ... first application of bleach to not touch the lightened section, but I got

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... the giant screens: ....and the thousands of people getting psyched 2 ... started walking with the huge crowd of red and yellow. Colón was much more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  the fun of it. "It's the first time we're working together as kind of a ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... costs less than $100, and will help monitor the oil spill's impact at a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -D, there are usually open spots by the first day of class, and you can go to the first day of the class and have the professor sign an Add Form for ... we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  , we accompanied the lively and jazzy voice of our guest artist, Patrice ... @mit) The performance of "Adam and Eve Ballet" was simply naughty! The music ... know the story! Evil won of course! And evil's triumph was blatant in the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  -eloquent me would end with the blog version of a mic drop, and then peace out ... , and the heaviness of what's been going on in it. Feelings of scrambling ... 't think I'm going to miss the atmosphere of MIT; I haven't so far and can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  to leave a part of myself behind me, and move onto what's next. Is the ... hated the first day. I'd feel this slight sorrow of knowing that I would ... Falls Apart by Ashe and Finneas. The camera pans out of the window and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and ... mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with ... better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  classes the first week, made some tough decisions, and dropped down to 5 the ... Federici's Re-Enchanting the World and George Caffentzis' The Future of 'The ... Capital?, and Dominique LaPorte's The History of Shit, and studying films

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... again for trusting us with so much of who you are, and I wish you all the ... all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  . I sit down for the first time in what feels like an eternity and turn ... planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... Classical Mechanics. This is the first MIT physics class that most first

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  fear." the first day of beginner swimming was last tuesday, and i ... . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... ; Usually, I'm biking home in the sweet spot of post-rush hour and pre

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  make jam?" and my friend Kevin P. '18 said, "of all the people I know ... varieties of fruits and veggies and delicious things--taking note of the ... that one of the handles broke when I was almost home, and I had to carry

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my ... . Instead, I could only listen to the gush of wind blowing against my hair and

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

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that's the first such item I've consumed today (yesterday, today, 24 hours ... We salute you. They say sometimes about MIT that of sleeping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  accurate flowers and plant parts made out of glass, created over the course ... glass) and how all the pieces of the flowers were connected to each other ... returning to the varied work you'd done before. As a group of juniors and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022