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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  (1960) with the score performed lived by the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall ... Bartollo, Sam Magee, and the freshman from the Arts at MIT advising seminar to ... .   We met up with some more Arts Scholars at the Five Horses Tavern

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  survive socially and academically at a school of geniuses? When I was ... at improving my application, I created a maker portfolio where I showed ... . Everyone there is going to be better than me at everything and I'm going to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  at MIT, I am taking not one, but two PE classes, back-to-back: Fitness ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... flags at the front are part of the MIT Undergraduate Association's Red

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... week, at least one of our reading assignments is co-authored by the speaker, and we’re all required to present at least one of the readings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Maseeh Dining Yamatos - all you can eat sushi!! Domino’s at 2AM When ... ’t try Professors that are bad at teaching The MIT Administration ... cross-register at Harvard :) fly somewhere exotic with friends over

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  that I've experienced at MIT so far. Last Sunday, I knocked out two psets ... briefly thought that the "oxygen" at the end of the word CITGO on that ... similar to flow. I keep the objective at the back of my mind for a few days

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  You should not do your primary grocery shopping at these locations ... bins for grains, but the prices are cheaper at the Harvest Co-op. Star ... that this guide helps you decide where to buy groceries at MIT. Have any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... needs to be something substantial. Not "look, we got Killer Mike at MIT. I ... enforcement system. There is no neat solution at the end because there is no

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came ... redoing problems about them over and over. I wouldn’t get frustrated at the ... of my seat with excitement at the latest chemistry breakthrough. Those

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  together and then sleep at last. After a walk past the rosy river that lasted ... . Then a second glance at the clock proved me wrong by twelve hours, and I ... savory teriyaki chicken, gazed longingly at adorable novelty items, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  fall (after spending the summer at home), to make sure that I wasn’t just ... at the same time, it’s been a really amazing thing to have all these ... without p-sets. Spoiler alert: I don't. And at this point it all goes to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  pundits so easily at their own game) "Romney was an interesting experiment in what happens if you have no long term consistency at all in your ... consulting job to go analyze baseball? A: "Well, most of my income at the time

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle ... cooking team. This means that, every Friday, I show up in the kitchen at 4pm, cook with my team-mates, serve dinner at 6:15pm sharp, eat, then clean up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... me. I wasn't at MIT: I was one of twentysome fresh MIT students ... plants at home. Only a few of them are growing here and the rest are new. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... . Kateryna Makova. After a year in the Makova lab at Penn State I returned to the same field at MIT, where I’ve been working as a UROP at the Page lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  , but more on that later.  Before and After! At home, I was ... bedrooms with my brother at one point so I could paint a mural on a larger ... at my desk. The main problem aside from the inefficient space use and

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in ... against the bus stop, dreadlocks, staring straight at me. There was no doubt

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... studying at my own pace. Most people who I've talked to have said that test ... materials. If you're good at self-studying, however, and have access to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... fend of fictional post-apocalyptic bad guys. At one point he asked the ... postcards. Apparently, even though the event was held at MIT, nobody could

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  facts here. People at MIT may make a lot of robots here, and there may be ... webcast hosts for Chesapeake said last night. That's why people look at ... obsession with pizza, and that my math professor is quite skilled at drawing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010