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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  known as "Kella"), because of our dedication to civic duty. (Our demands ... of kind, supportive, politically incorrect people to live with. I know ... situation, rest assured that there are plenty of opportunities to change your

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  negotiation activity, in which each team had to build “satellites” out of Legos ... and the negotiation phase began, teams jumped out of their chairs to get ... 4 gave all of team 4’s points to team 3 in exchange for splitting the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are ... . Techiya, on the other hand, sings a variety of music, from slow liturgies to ... democratically and arrange most of them ourselves. This allows us to add in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our ... floor had been reminding me to meet Jack, who I assumed was one of their ... exploring the dorms, we journeyed to Lobby 7 to meet up with some of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... 's that the people here have a certain kind of steel to them. They ... of when life's not perfect, because life's not going to be perfect

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  /01/2025 22:01 we had to wait until around 8:40p for one of the exoplanet ... plan for each of your targets with details of how you want it to be ... , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  members of the class of 09, preparing to leave thier respective wombs, ye be ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step ... friend of mine, Cathie (UGA) '07, invited me to a free concert with Garbage

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  one of the top Victorian literature faculties around. I was surprised to ... important than ever to look at life from new perspectives, be it the tip of a ... Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my ... “beautiful” would be to erase all of the nuances of what we’ve built over the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to ... all the choices you have to make when starting your first year of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... meetings and also inviting them to RSVP. If you received one of these letters ... helpful? What hasn't been helpful at all? And for those of you planning to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now ... first and roll over to the front of the foot. this is still true (for most ... should wait for the rest of the foot to hit the ground before moving the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... himself, pretended to be a spindle apparatus, and sorted a series of ... frantically tried to explain it to us in the remaining minutes of class (good

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... live within a few minutes walk of each other, ever again. we went to the ... more. some of these people i call best friends. i'm not ready to say

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... . We also all found the sight of brush strokes to be oddly satisfying ... depicted with brush strokes prompted me to take a picture of this. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  are to build awareness and support of disobedience-robust work being ... concerns of citizens in Flint, Michigan to unravel a mystery that many in positions of power would have preferred to keep under wraps. Both faced

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  a loading dock nearby. I’ve had the good fortune of never having to ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016