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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still ... felt motivated by Mocha, and since I felt like I'd lost a lot of time to ... ! my decision to audition for Kinematix was pretty random. I respected

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  attempt to pick these fragments out of the haze for you—because each of them ... blogging, i:   went to see [annotation note= "pop band famous for ... ; filmed a dance video with a friend  i desperately longed for people to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  definitely by the end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with ... , you'll be getting ready to take a holiday break from some really amazing ... 've got some answers (updated for this year's very competitive EA pool). Is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  . Linoleum blocks, which are typically used for printmaking, can get pricey and ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green[/caption] [caption id="attachment_90800" align="aligncenter" width="507"] the new

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to ... question that requires you to know something cold, but for most of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  on New Year's Eve. Now you need to understand that we have always done ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it ... forward to lots more puzzles over the next few weeks so thanks for sharing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... wasn't getting to the other side all I ever wanted? So I took off and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  right, hoping to get something. And by magic, and by sheer luck, I managed to nab an internship at Microsoft as a New Technologist, where my ... for an app, I did practice technical interviews (though I didn't get any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  had something new to give. My friends owned cars and had deeper voices ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to ... warmth. He had moved since high school to a new place that smelled

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... subconscious for months but that I’ve not had the time or emotional capacity to ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Bombers or the Cultural Houses in New House). The walls are more likely to ... suffering for him to feed on, so we wake him up with a huge party that ... group continuing to find enthusiastic new freshmen who will contribue to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  digital format, present both the lesson and design plan to instructors for ... or biology faculty who received the email and decided to stop by to ... hour to go, and some of my favorite guest lecturers from edX stopped by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , but I was too hosed to write new content for it; instead I submitted ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... , your portable devices should be fully charged to avoid getting lost on ... collaboration. We highly recommend that you get to know the other passengers on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  freshmen applied for four new spots, and, Mr. McOwen said, it was hard to ... , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... Chris Mills write blogs for its admissions site. Mark Wilson for The New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  for this UROP by the UROP office (as opposed to receiving credit), so ... me and had stuff for me to do. Lo and behold, I had a summer job. So ... temperature controller for a laser. It's pretty fun; I'm getting a lot of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  actually get assigned a letter grade by your research supervisor for the ... getting credit is the most important thing for an UROP, but it's great to be ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  .M, Putz was ready for bed. We all settled in our tents to sleep, but not ... school so it was really nice to be able to experience the great outdoors ... a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  took a few days to get the essential furniture set up. Boxes were so ... to get our common spaces more together, though. The living room was in disarray for two weeks, but we decided to move its furniture around once we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020