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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  virtual setting, especially considering that it's hard to bond with new people when your interaction is consigned to a closed Zoom room. Over the ... -years in particular to meet new people, so the show was a wonderful means of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  panic set in. You're going to get nightmares of every tiny mistake you ... on both exams, you're fine. I somehow managed to scrape by with my ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  introduction to the medium. Your intervention will begin and end the story. But ... demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... on your planned roadmap. Want to schedule 200 classes in your sophomore ... [/annotation] classes you’d need to take to major in 6-2 and get an MEng

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  popularized by the 19th century impressionists like Claude Monet due to the new ... painting, the hardest part was accumulating the activation energy to get ... allow me to add the smallest details by building up layer after layer, but

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  a message if you're going to be there!) to cheer on Team 97 ... really need to go get caught up on work so I can have fun this weekend ... dangerous. Inviting anyone literate enoug to read a sticker on your shirt to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  major upsides No Rent - I get to live at my parents’ house for exactly ... company email. Pull up the spec that I need to work on. 8:40 AM- I get lost ... figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... Written early September after a presentation by Spencer Glendon from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  truck to get their cannon back.  The students were met by MIT students who ... this picture below posted to the website www.howeandser.com from 2006 ... the cannon so that they don't have to worry about it getting stolen

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... as good as it gets. I get to oversee all aspects of student life and ... and how MIT helped (or didn’t) get them to their current level of

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to get involved in student government, because the only student ... the time. What eventually motivated me to get involved with the UA was ... Steve Kelch '08 as my running mate. There were three tickets. We lost to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the ... sophomores useful skills and to let the upperclassmen get practice leading a ... "shadows" to evaluate and assist us. Some cadets also role played by acting

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  promise that we don't require new members to have prior cheerleading ... ) rendition of "Row Row Row Your Boat" when the fans began singing it to taunt ... about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  your psets and tests and it's much easier to fail a faceless name. Office ... to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... try to go every week. It's also best if the TA that is staffed is your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  , New Jersey, and New Hampshire. We're travelling by plane to Seattle and ... immediately welcomed by them as a brother. They gave us a place to stay and took ... Bigfoot, but we did get to see the mountain / active volcano Mt. Rainier

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  .[/annotation] Get in contact with the coach early by sending an email. Make sure your ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other ... , and I was lucky enough to get in!! I officially committed the spring

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , so i didn't get emails about new blog posts. (don't worry, we'll be ... , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... hitting ignore and ignore and ignore until i actually need to deal with it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Mark Wahlberg anyway, so there. I still get to talk about the mystery ... bring a new philanthropic challenge to MIT's living communities ... intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath ... music elements to jazz--or vice versa, depending on your point of view. I ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009