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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in a blue moon, but my roommate is artsy and paints pretty often, so I ... , paintbrushes, a small copic marker set, paintbrushes, and a marker pad. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... here on Thursday, April 8th, at 4PM; a recording will be made available

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... world can accommodate travel again. This post will be a list of the ... backpacking.    Disclaimer: I am but a wee freshman, and thanks to COVID

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I ... .01L lecture, I would wake up at a crisp 8:30AM, wash up, eat some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  laptop cases? this is not that post. this is a post about my desk, which ... . she signed my book!"] The Dragon Warrior  [/annotation] a binder containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  ="aligncenter" width="487"] Cinnamon rolls[/caption] A few days later, I travelled halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really ... Brewery[/caption] A meme that hit home-- I saw a bear!! [caption id

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  A few days ago, Spotify generated a playlist for me that included a ... school and growing up, I thought I should write a bit about how different things are now. A lot of people reading the admissions blogs are rising

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i ... ="here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering ... , working within a budget, and gain unifying engineering experience.   ... construction of a high quality functioning alpha prototype. The large teams

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving ... alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me doing the unforeseeable and Going Outside! (It's also because I took a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a better day, because it’s still a good idea lol) but maintain the self

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of ... expository writing are a bit fried. But please, I promise there’s a guide to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... tell you a story." One day, as a young man, he got in an elevator

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful ... alumni, and even folks who aren't affiliated with MIT but who have had a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked ... around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly, walking past a Dunkin Donuts stand and a row of subway fare machines. I ... trains and missing signs. I was at the Alewife T-Station, which comprised a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ...  http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... parents of a good friend of mine, and a fellow MIT alum, Rich Whalley '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  what they learn to create an alpha prototype for a new product! It's an awesome hands-on class that gives students a taste of what it takes to ... next product might be. Orange team prepares to present. Ferno: a flat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012