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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP ... interested in working on an floating sculpture by Marta Pan for an exhibition ... an application to the UROP office and applied for funding for an IROP

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out ... character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about ... active combatants who had a swell time scouring the web for annoyances to ... derailed by the raging flame war, I ended up forgetting to pick up a cover

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... parent’s wishes. I asked for purple walls when we first moved to the ... child, but at some point I could tape something to my wall or ask for a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... and the administration) have asked for people to tell them before ... have some sort of internal control. People have just been getting new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  , including (but not limited to) those who are registered for Deferred Action ... support for admitting and educating undocumented students, I wanted to share this letter, sent last week to the MIT community by Chancellor Cynthia

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  statements by department heads to affirm commitments to student health ... , but they called for multicultural spaces, offices dedicated to minority ... had already been met here or did not apply to MIT. For example, we have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  student and I don't generally get to go home for shorter breaks such as ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  opportunity for me to buy a new, ultra-trendy, well-engineered bowl from the ... an hour and a half I feel like I'm at least starting to get skating ... another aria about how he's going to kill himself for like ten more minutes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment ... trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience ... of interactions, so we get to manage our contact with co-workers, local

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for ... nitty gritty of discipline, lesson planning, and how to get students ... their unique culture. I attended a great new event this year, led by ch3

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  . Alright, so that's my little "sermon" to you =p. Now, for some more ... off to Madrid for the next month (basically all of IAP) tomorrow night ... Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  get the impression that success as a math major must mean being able to ... mathematician can have, or necessary for success. It’s important to celebrate ... 've essentially followed the "path of most math" for most of my life up to this

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  -like college here] where everyone's competing for A's all the time and i get to ... . maybe it's just hard for me to get along with "normal people" (sampled ... insincere not to say this is somewhat true. I think what is meant by most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... lab doing research. "So you’re the new urop?" 3. n the work assigned by ... , and we refer to majors and minors by their numbers. This honestly

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... connoisseurs we pretended to be. When the snacks were all gone, we'd return for ... . Sounds like a win-win to me. Maple Leaf Cookies (these go super fast) I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  missing the fast pace of studies. Students also grew accustomed to the ... for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change ... , encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i ... overshadowed by the question of whether i am entitled to feel sad, whether i have ... catch new joys.  the joys after a sorrow need not be overshadowed by

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023