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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... ."]blogging would be an excuse[/annotation] to continue pursuing art while attending

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  have all semester to CAD our designs, CNC molds for them, injection mold ... iteration. I met with my team this weekend to finalize our design: the moon fish Tui and La from Avatar. Shout-out to Audrey for designing the fish

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of ... music-ish classes, 21M.150 Intro to Music Theory and CMS.S60 Rap Theory

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had ... various ridiculous schemes to get in, since we were sure it would be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... . the music slapped though dance kinematix — i biked to Northeastern

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  watercolor and graphite, so I tried to experiment with other media ... of the piece was to illustrate accents and the uniqueness of accents ... person with some escaping her mouth.  I’ve been wanting to embroider for a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have ... love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has ... last year. So it's because I hold these things so close to my heart that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk, and I began to run long distances again. I kept ignoring the pain, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your ... (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an "advising seminar." (There also used to be RBA/residence-based advising, where

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... do we do? While I’m sure you’re dying to know all about of our ... , I’m here to introduce you to a few of our MIT and Crosstown cadets

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year ... page changed from the normal message to one that read something along the ... that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... based on major (Course 8 was Station 19) and asked to report to Johnson

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... first and third Friday every month, the refractor slews to Saturn or the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www ... princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012