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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  motivated to build the skills to become a hacker by next year's HackMIT. New ... fluent enough in those languages to build my own castles) by the end of ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• 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 / 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 / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  . Shayna Ahteck '23 remarked that they might want to figure out new ways to get to places. I'm also pretty excited to see all the places I never got ... by a player who used data from Google Earth to generate Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  the kitchen to get ingredients for a smoothie. I pulled the fridge door ... my loft was a way for me to get more natural light. A few minutes later ... Want to Break Free" by Queen blasted in the background. After that I made

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• 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 / 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 / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  of being surrounded by family. Since coming to MIT, I've oscillated ... soap operas with my parents. I no longer get to eat my mother's home ... to enjoy fresh fruit new years fireworks go off in the distance as we

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  me, “I’m happy you’re getting rejections! They’re important to show you ... out how to get UROPs. I was seated at one of the café spaces at Stata ... to get into. I literally just approached my Professor and he connected

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close. Every day, I discover something new about MIT; I’m so amazed by everything ... their workshop. I think I’ll get a chance to go back next week and explore

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , ultimately, it doesn’t mean much. It allowed me to get a break, see some new ... train: #5, two hours and 51 minutes late listening to: Do By Friday It ... snowier and snowier as we got closer to Reno; I was impressed by the snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  !"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get-to ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... . “Oh no! How dare they ask a simple get-to-know-you question instead of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025