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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  -Nehisi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic - which in the past year became my new ... Link on the top to get more of an idea of the classes I'm taking. The links ... sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] My mother, like any other parent, likes to keep ... year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being ... . True, I don't get any credit or pay for the hours I put into the Musical

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of his presidency. Well, for future reference, I think it's best to try ... about 15 hours painting and this is what we've got to show for it. Ruth ... in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  advocating for one side. I chose to do my video on MIT's closed campus policy ... then conducting interviews and getting the narrative for my doc ... documentary about yourself is that you are the narrator and you get to decide

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... how they donated money to your charity. For the business, it increases ... Bullhorn for hosting us in their new headquarters.   After the event

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  information about opportunities for international students to study at ... they have there. One of the best things about my job is I get to travel ... anyone can do - is try to put themselves in new, occasionally uncomfortable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the ... mode for the Asymptones. Auditions lasted from the following Saturday to ... honest answer was that I had ceased to be pleasantly exhausted by the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  spring as the reward for having to live through senior fall. I already knew ... . Hours every week went into: preparing for career fairs, going to career fairs, searching for positions to apply to, actually applying to these

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  this orphanage, giving donations, and implementing new programs for ... thought it would be only reasonable for them to lose their hope too ... by the sun. He also wore a wide, toothy smile. He said to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  train to New York City too often. Mama's Boy, Dustin Lance Black, 2019 ... nation I'd always loved was finally getting to know and love their LGBTQ ... within to the edge of what can be loved." Autobiography of Red is for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he ... three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what they wanted to study, what they liked to do for fun. What made them tick

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  try out things you didn't get to do before. Learn a new skill. Play with ... won't get to see for a while, and now that you (presumably) don't have ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... to a close for all you high school students out there. Maybe summer ... other kids at my high school. No one else seemed to really get it, that

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective ... diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get ... have two attitudes about: the get-used-to-it or shut-it-down-immediately-by-telling-people-to ... goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to ... a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  extremely trivial amount to pay for a doctor's visit and getting two week ... commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for ... refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  tried to kick a small target on someone who’s running away from me. By the ... showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we ... begging for mercy. When I decided to take a break from tiramisu, I was in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  out and find a new place to live. With the help of his well ... other by their in-game nicknames when referring to the gameplay. “Why is ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006