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• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  to practice with me makes her happy. (Aside: My mom was a cheerleader ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... , and I have to write a paper for 21A.260 and a pset for 5.60. And lead a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  semester. Made art: over the summer, my internship held a poster-making ... : I had to take a break from exercise during the fall semester for ... somewhere a long way away. I don't know if this joy will be able to persist

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  to memorize and lead chanteys onboard a ship to make tasks faster ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and ... . You’ve been lied to by the [annotation note="A shocking amount of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy ... four star buffet on a broke college student’s budget. You walk in to ... went off to a meeting.   On Saturday, I got up earlier. MUCH

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  ] kindly picked me up and told me that we had to make a stop at In-N-Out. The ... to make my favourite comfort food (which is unfortunately a little ... "]compulsory meal plan friends,[/annotation] you’ll have to wait. I ate a LOT of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... . Pyrolysis and biochar. It's a little bit hard to imagine that all of these ... later, I'm seated at Walker Memorial, a gymnasium eternally dedicated to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  find a way to make it work! Otherwise, I plan to just spend my free hours ... environment. ESD.054 is more of a theoretical approach to leadership for which ... electromagnetic fields. There seems to be a resurgence of differential equations in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... whom agree: making such a statement isn’t wrong, but they would never say

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  thought about it before, but it seemed like a perfect way to really see a ... be a part of in Italy"]MISTI Italy GTL.[/annotation]I was supposed to ... COVID-19 spikes. Then, sophomore fall came around and, due to a series of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... makes a great set of noise-canceling headphones! Sina sporting the noise ... them (I shoot tomorrow) so I got to take a bunch of pictures! They use

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  , Tanglewood, and Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work ... and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  'm low-key still busy. Next week I have two essays due, a short story to write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped to pick up Boston Symphony Orchestra college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... would sacrifice an afternoon nap for a one-mile walk across the Harvard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... ). First and definitely foremost. I like to make lists. And spreadsheets. And ... was little, I used to always get a 96-box of Crayola crayons for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  , truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether ... 's a committee decision, and we do the best that we can to treat the ... write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  for everyone. And this isn’t just a commencement speaker trying to make ... incredible young people to realize what they are capable of. This is a place ... . A place where sleep regularly takes a back seat to the intellectual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a ... , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... figured I would make the best out of it. i introduced myself to the head ... . Whole Foods even has gluten-free bagels sometimes." Verified to have a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the ... Graduation. I have managed to make it through. And it feels absolutely surreal ... adventure with me. Y’all are a part of my forever family.  To my blog family

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021