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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  student, you can become an Art Scholar and receive a scholarship for a class ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  up dropping my UROP--a story for another time--I started cooking. A lot. This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  A couple nights ago, while my friends and I were wasting away in ... someone read aloud: My name is Cami. I'm a lil bi filipina girl from LA county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... 't realize there was no kitchen at all, just a sink, a microwave, and some ... listing said it had a kitchen. Secondly, we knew the bathrooms were shared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  As I’ve sort of mentioned in previous blogs, I am a big fan of cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... myself,[/annotation] watching a lot of cooking shows or YouTube videos as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  So first there was Peru, where we ate really good food (Exhibit A ... fog shrouding the surroundings. Exhibit A: Maido - Japanese ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ... classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... , 3 my fourth. Each student must focus on a HASS subject eventually

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... train station, cross the Lahn river, and enter a building across the ... . I was a blogger until very recently, so hopefully you haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It's been a while. I've had a busy last month: 0. I said ... solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram ... 'm laughing with a friend, in his/her room, and not because I'm moping over an ... out over a few posts, but thought I'd begin with two stories: one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... , there was the Chamber Chorus, the elite group which required a prepared

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard ... the academic bar isn't lowered for athletes. Earlier this year, we had a speaker series in the Admissions Office. We asked a number of faculty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising ... it sounds like. You're assigned a supervisor, you schedule meetings ... your advisor every semester to talk mano-a-mano about which classes to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members ... Michael Epstein, who graduated from MIT with a Masters in Comparative Media ... school for a Masters in Comparative Media Studies. Basically, there is no

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A long time ago, before the Fleet Center was built ... Sergeant Pepperz on a Boston Duck Tour I went on this afternoon with Tau Beta ... grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The ... . IAP provides a huge number of experiences to take advantage of. Here is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  -graduate-student perspective that I never would have thought of a few years ago. Two weekends ago at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  blog! Back then, I was a starry-eyed over-caffeinated food-obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this brutalist hallway be any more translation-invariant??!” A lot has happened

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences ... was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023