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  Unity

  

  simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything but noteworthy. Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... walked to Killian Hall and was totally astonished when the ticket collector

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for these classes), and you can hopefully understand why I was so excited to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to ... myself working harder than I ever have to keep up. But there's much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... ="111897" image5="111896" /] We went to see the opera “Lysistrata, or The Nude

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and ... this is a weekend where you spend a short amount of time trying to build

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It ... ’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  [/annotation]at[annotation note='the actual result from psychology is much more specific to pedagogy ... .[/annotation]In contrast to Mel's remarkable recovery of her sleep schedule, however, my ... this is not very impressive to most high school students but it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  Center is no more. This past weekend, Subway closed abruptly due to issues ... the entirety of the MIT campus. Indeed, what does the Stud have left to ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to ... . And as I’ve navigated my way through those dangerous waters, I like to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... and Diseases of the Nervous System, 1-4pm—the final elective I need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... immediately endorsed his proposal: to develop an ongoing undergraduate primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018