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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  that right: rain. For a variety of reasons, this made me less than happy ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... falling from the sky, I won't deny that I always took a certain pleasure in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  Symphony Orchestra, and the Media Lab, to name just a few. MIT Dramashop ... . Students with a multitude of interest and involvement in the arts at MIT will ... creativity and expression. A hands-on approach allows what they learn in their

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside ... relativistic time dilation and fall in love with physics. In 2003 I'm a high

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  time around, summer is over and school is starting (although not for a ... of 2010 (which makes me a sophomore), and I'm Course VI (i ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... styles, extensive vocabulary (250,000 words from a vocabulary of 30

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I ... -25 people who are associated with the band on a rotating basis, but most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... saw how easily preventable diseases placed a tragic burden on society ... International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)-India program - a chance

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... impressive and inspiring and wonderful, etc. In the past few days, a few different events and people have collided, and the talk I attended brought a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  . However, rather than settle for a second choice, the valedictorian at ... that's fine because she had a plethora from which to choose, including a ... . MIT was my dream since I was a freshman. I would make up passwords to my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  013. Do you get along with your parents? yes 014. Your heritage? i am a ... . Drank alcohol? yes 032. Gone to a mall? no 033. Eaten a box of Oreos? no ... 't supposed to do? yes 041. Been in love? yes 042. Fired a gun? no 043. Been

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic ... afternoon tea. There will be a big old knees up as from here on out the ... route divides into three affording a huge number of options for teams to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can ... busy though? I mean...I know I got my CSS done a little late but it's still been done for a couple weeks now :(" And Anonymous wrote, "Why have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  saw a bull fight there and it actually made me nauseous, to the point ... that one of the bulls rebelled and broke the neck of a matador, but that's another story for another day. There were also a lot of pieces by the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  wild game or poach a cow from a nearby farm. (Actually, I think the only ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... cheerleading practice with me -- she was a cheerleader in high school, so coming

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

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East Campus/West Campus Water War (which annoyed me a little this year because ... a wooden Godzilla monster that carried jugs of water. By the time the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... concern I hear a lot from people who are not MIT students is "Oh no, if they ... deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Police, who brought in a bunch of flags (USA, Massachusetts, MIT) and ... . Next came the big procession with a LOT of people in academic robes. This ... Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, etc. Quite a showing

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... human interactions in the built environment and data as a change agent. By ... all the buzzwords. On the other hand, I think I got a lot out of this

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025