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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  switched it to P/D/F, but it's okay - by the time I graduate, I'll have taken ... expecting you to have the answers to difficult questions, to quit making faces ... stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek ... eventually moved to the bathroom. By popular request of the suite, we did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I ... City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler). Thanks to my dad who helped me really ... . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  took our class to Boxaroo (an escape room in Boston founded by MIT Alums ... to see Fun Home (we didn't group it with #7 for the sake of making the ... the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  high school Spanish day by day, and all I had really known to begin with ... landmarks. Well, here's why. So I got to MIT three years ago and I found out ... seem to know another language because their parents or grandparents spoke

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green ... ="attachment_90798" align="aligncenter" width="507"] this summer i've been biking to ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  't want to be a student at that school, either. Try to make your paper ... purpose, as required by different schools, tends to be around 300 to 1000 ... average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  parts of myself to make it simpler for others to understand. Everything ... the same time, she found it difficult to make things a personal matter ... fighting spirit. But today, I am simply tired. Too tired to make this post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  mouth every time I had to walk by their doors or hold conversations. They ... ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  , but... who am I kidding. I really haven’t been able to make the time ... weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking ... possible way. List-making is one of my [annotation note="haha get it... top

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  . But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point of making ... But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I can still make it to work on time and get some sleep before that ... . Jebby beat me by 11 hours to the apartment, but sweet reunions never come ... airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  is read by multiple people, it goes to committee where it will be seen by up to 10 different people. Finally, the Dean herself reviews every ... ? ------------------------------------- Danish wrote: "I want to improve my scores by retaking the tests but I have

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin ... Featuring my sister's drawings cuz she's awesome.   I went to ... blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Central Meeting to survey the venue, talk to the tech on hand, and make sure ... like me to risk the strong seas churned up by Hurricane Norbert just off ... . By the time I got to the Malibu Surf Shack, they were already closing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ). I'm now sitting at home, trying to relax but not quite, because there is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... fully explicate, this semester has been a blur, passing by faster than I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... would stare longingly out the window. Then when MIT went back to class on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  try, and involved Vogt '06 standing behind Milo making stupid faces to ... John Cloutier are supposed to meet with MIT President Susan Hockfield to discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  Read another post by Sharon here.   That’s right, I’m talking about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  to or what to ask for. I started by asking one person… and they knew ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... this and what I’ll call “normal adult things”—making a budget and paying

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025