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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  make a few promises on future content. Quite a lot has been compressed ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  to publish after a few more experiments. Amazingly, I've been working ... , you definitely don't need a 4.0 to be admitted, even to the very tip ... involved in a project, at which point they need to start applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  perfect (a few random bugs I really do not know how to fix) but making my ... to actually making full posts about these things — my to-do list app ... -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful ... 't flood you with pictures from Mathcamp. Suffice it to say that it was a ... flattering (as a matter of fact, you HAD TO wear speedos. I got a huge scolding

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall ... don’t make you grow up any more than wearing a suit does. That was a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... to have an infant within a 3 foot radius who's extremely unhappy to be ... seriously think the schedules when to schedule, a recursive paradox that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... statistical physics, but i’ve also enjoyed talking to a wide variety of people ... . this is a disorienting realization to have because i’ve spent my whole

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  .  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to Costco, made pizzas, dressed like a princess, went to the incredible ... .  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  , but it makes a nice story, and a good stock answer to the inevitable ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... these blog entries. I did, perhaps mistakenly, refer to Dr. Hamel as a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... . I continued to follow all of his stuff after that. I was a bit too shy to go up after the talk to say hi, and I'm sure a small part of myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer ... reviews make it out to be. only 2% of reviews were 1 star so i lost the rng

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group ... arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... Silk Road Ensemble, and we were treated to a luxuriously exotic medley of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... their format is shocking after a year at MIT. It’s odd not to pset here ... . But there are pros to being a HASS major at MIT as well (and there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... Race. Did you use to have a Big Wheel? You know, the plastic tricycle ... lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook and pen wherever I go. It's kind of like a journal, but I don't exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  —e.g. making it to a part of a problem that I couldn’t reach last time, even if ... this leads and how to apply it to broader situations than a colloid ... full runs of the show. I’ve wanted to audition for a musical since I got

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  the periodic table How to make a perfectly cooked steak How to make ... What is the particle in a box model? How to make ice cream at home ... before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little ... 500th word. Will that happen to mine? If I have a really good 505-word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  out who this guy is. As he sat down to expertly roll a loose ... was actually able to put my 21M.026 knowledge to use. Jeremy's a huge ... minute alto shrill was enough to make any blueshound's week. We spouted

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