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• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  California. For the first few months, I was flying back and forth to the East ... , and generally enjoyed the trappings of adult life, like having a tech ... maybe did exactly once and spent the vast majority of Wednesdays at her

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  Victor Schwartz and Jerald Kay The recent suicides of college students at ... resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of ... as the result of an abrupt and intense impulse, often in the context of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  : watching fireworks over the Charles during my first (and only) 4th of July in ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... and his journey of defining success, the book “Excellent Sheep” which

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  images, and make files to laser cut. Setting up your document The first ... want. "Number of Artboards" basically means number of pages, and you ... can add a new page by clicking on the symbol boxed in dotted green, and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  manuscripts from the School of Kerala, which showed their work in calculus and ... claims that Barrow was the true inventor of Calculus, and that Newton and ... interwoven. For him, even the laws of motion and the path taken by a ray of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of ... , downtown Boston, Fenway Park, and the infamous CITGO sign from many of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  the song comes in with kind of a funk-metal tone, and Clay begins to ... the people behind us thought of my manic, Paula Abdul-esque dancing and ... Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  blurbs from ea. of them on the MIT residence website and assume there ... the girls got together and made lists of what they did and didn't like ... ! Margaret Shepherd, author of The Art of Civilized Conversation and The Art of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  States, and how it related to the promotion of unity and understanding on ... ?). There were cheers and shouting as each of the major actors made their ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the ... and organizations have come together to support the National Day of ... . Undergraduates consistently credit a strong community and culture as one of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... of the Future" issue. He is a proud member of First Baptist Church in ... ." Yay for MIT Alumni!!! (And yay for the MIT alumni website...he lists all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to ... distribution scheduled for the first two weeks of May—mark your calendars! But what exactly goes into the making of a yearbook? (...and one so fine

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  phone and then manually typed all of the data points into excel while I ... documentary class required hours and hours of work the week that they were due: arranging interviews, getting good footage, and editing all of the clips

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  the race started and I felt on top of the world for the first five miles ... and 80% of the words on this page were written by Dora '18. The tiny ... up straight like a needle and gently kissed the blue-white smear of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus ... the first day of classes, you become a freshman, but until then you are

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (the first few pages told from the womanizer’s first person super turned me off, and I just stopped ... Paper Menagerie was really great and the first book I’ve read that also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  ; after we learned all the sections of our first set and moved onto cleaning ... a form of dance that features squats, jumps, and lively music. The ... floor and moving through the “electric slide” and hopping to the beats of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... fellowships, with families at home and a mindset of just getting through the ... , and found myself about 10 minutes ahead of the people I intended to meet

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  , and I attended them during the first week of IAP. I learned the basics ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... the front door! And here is my favorite part of the house! An attic

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... everything people handwrite for me: a note on the front page of a novel, For

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024