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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri's Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... spend time with our high school friend, who is working close by! And we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that ... named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  experience justice by enumerating the acts who performed, but I'll hint at them ... , because it was. If you're kind of grossed out by that, though, join the MIT Intramural Table Tennis team. Or learn how to dance through MIT Ballroom

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  had to go see it and make funny faces at her in the booth and show my ... my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  Mountain View to make weather.com boring for me. I used to think it'd be sooo ... arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  .) The professor said he was willing to make an exception but that the ... excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  … locations, we set to work. This isn't our first rodeo, and by now we ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away from home. Aka, it’s finally time to post my (extremely belated

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I ... underclassman excitement, feeling tired and cynical, not bothering to remind

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  make space for. I go to a graduate-level graph theory class that is not ... 't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... required. I'm probably going to take AI. Then I head to Abstract Algebra (18

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  event going and provides some of the most dedicated students to make the ... professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... 's definitely something to think about. This event, like the French Hip Hop I blogged earlier, is also sponsored by the French department, part of MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood ... ? mrreeoooooooowwwwwowwowwwwww! without pause because they want to be fed at 3 am. Or maybe because

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Headcover – Show off your MIT alumni status to your golf buddies by impaling a ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  single now! Inspired by my housemates' rooms, I decided to put some effort ... minutes away from MIT by foot and dope as hell. There's an upstairs and ... storage locker we'd used to hold things from our previous apartment. It was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... I am, nor who I want to be I've made decisions and said things that don't feel true to my values everything feels off   trauma has

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025