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• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  the midst of a multi-part snow battle. The first two battles involved ... possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice ... entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those ... ’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you ... individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts ... imaginative problem solving. The MIT School of Architecture and Planning offers
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... , so it’s possible that, under the stress of economic insecurity, my ... , or perhaps the more accurate statement here is that I view the process of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... side, that workload that was just the right pace? it's far ahead of you ... says it's an annoying part of the healing process. i just think my hands

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ... The tunnels mapped out on the back of my hand While you were laughing I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all ... fun together again! One of my friends is in the Shakespeare ensemble ... and ready D:) production of the Merry Wives of Windsor. She gave me the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... aptly titled: The game of rules and living by them. Song: The Name of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  & Meditation first, Yoga right after. Although having to take half of my PE requirement in the last 6 weeks of college makes me "that senior ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a ... few minutes on the 18th floor, where we first made sure to record our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... . Some were worried that the presence of wi-fi for the first time meant

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  first Cross-Continental Solar Car race. "One of the very most important ... On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  application essays. I saw confetti stream down the center of the page. “well ... the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or ... by the end of this.” “Dude you’re literally going to lose.” “You

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example ... the student feeling comfortable about a lot of different things at the end of the semester but not necessarily ready to solve any problem you

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  . Literally. The likelihood of you seeing MIT quite like this is somewhat small ... of the plane while I was snapping these photos. Rest assured that I was ... ;   This was the first major landmark I recognized once I was in the

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  .) have created the first-ever reconstruction of Roman climate. Now, the ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  coincident that our whole body, the way it operates, is comprised of a system ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social ... pad and acoustic guitar, though i've kind of fallen in love with the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020