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• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater ... ) peace with femininity, or at least I understand better why expressions of ... /beauty) were so embarrassing to me at times. This was mostly thanks to CMS.307

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017 John and Nellie Wooden Institute at Miami University. For four days, two

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  undocumented students at MIT. Because DACA (like immigration enforcement overall ... study at MIT, particularly as the Regular Action deadline approaches. The ... (S^3), is an advisor for all DACA students at MIT and works closely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  year at MIT. But wait, don’t enter yet; you still have about a week ... whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... good ol’ fashioned car bash? At this rush event, people from all walks of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  that recruits teams of writers at thousands of different universities. I ... first-generation at MIT, and this one's about being a student ... 're recruiting, so if you're going to be at MIT in the fall and are interested in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... fireworks shows, a dozen at a time if you park under a mountain, each one ... silence manifests itself as loud static at night in my city-trained ears

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy ... ’re going to be at MIT over the summer. Kendall Square Market Location: 350

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See the #1 Boston Adventure at the Boston International Antiquarian ... suits. Not particularly interested in huge games at the time, we headed ... lounges back at the MIT home. Here are some examples of the awesome Black

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... incunabula at the BIABF (see below). Foxing refers to “rust colored spots which ... . For valuable volumes, they started at $500, increased to $2,500, $7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  mean what most people call “night,” some “morning.” Our lounges awaken at ... . Occasionally, the midnight lounge is quiet. Some stare at the wall, relaxing ... . Dancing on tables permitted. At the start of the semester, lounge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... the team. So here goes: my stab at a success profile, heavily informed by my experience in project classes, UPOP, and at companies.  Whether

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... , and subsequent soar into brilliant adulthood?). Who knows at this point ... Phone note I'm typing into, I now see that, at this point, the best option is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  boarding the bus back to Boston.     Last year we saw Rusalka at ... year, we saw Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle at the opera, Les Miserables on Broadway, and a million great things at the Mo

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long ... know what? MIT is unnecessarily hard -- at least if you think the purpose ... of his time frolicking in the sun while laughing at the snow photos his

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was ... talking about what my first year at MIT actually was like. First things ... changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and ... the Arts Scholars to see The Tempest at the American Repertory Theater ... very good at card throwing. Large objects appeared out of nowhere, people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  -wracked he was about this relationship, especially at night, when the blankets ... to thud faster. He wiped at his eyes with his left hand and managed to ... mumbled, his heart thudding faster now, but even at that moment, his mind

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  community stay healthy, and even though I feel overwhelmed at times, I really ... clarify something about my path at MIT - I now know what I am concentrating ... 'll be working on corrosion resistant piping for oil and gas at TMK IPSCO

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6 ... that our Corn Dog was the fastest plane at the competition--however, the ... problems at all. As it came around the final turn to approach the finish line

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  abstractions of human proportion and movement. At times, it was frustrating. At ... . The architecture major at MIT is notorious among undergrads for two ... : "Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it was the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014