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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you ... the kind of world I want to live in with its terrible beauty and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... is a school he had heard of before coming to this country," Mr. Taylor ... -bound students. "This achievement is a tribute to their pursuit of educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  of clothing were supposed to go with other articles of clothing. I ... excuse to eat lots of dessert. Matt '08 baked cookies, and Sarah '08 baked ... there's some rule that every picture taken of me is fated to look

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to ... convenient to say numbers rather than having to recite the title of every class ... infinite MIT mailing lists to communicate quickly with certain groups of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline ... validation errors with their essays, taking more than a couple of minutes to ... of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that backlog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  together as a troop, marching through the forest to the far side of the ... appeal of biting into apples, I thought to myself, after indulging in my ... . Since we had apples, of course we had to bake, and though I’m mostly

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  totally arbitrary order, starting with number 2. My first exposure to Rocky Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... 3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  of where I am. And I've tried to type this sentence out again and ... wanted to pursue this strange junction of media and STEM, always wanted to ... to explore these parts of myself I never felt comfortable being so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  I have never read any of Marie Kondo's books, nor have I claimed to ... that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... decided to share some (but definitely not all) of the highlights, explain

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... neatly to the story of the brownies; a few days ago, I decided to try my

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  of a relationship so I tried to break up with my boyfriend. Perhaps ... -deprived. Thanks to poor time management the previous days, I spent most of the rest ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  I finallyget back to my room, Dennis and I just share a look of wide ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  came to MIT, but certainly there are analogies with scientific models of creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... to connect their knowledge of the past with the immediate present and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a ... death sentence. #5 proved to be the low point of the day, even though the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... loft to block out the rest of the world and a touch lamp shining into the ... have to climb out of bed to turn it off. Intense hat from Russia Fall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points ... mechanics to explain in terms of current/voltage. But when viewed in terms of ... Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  happened to share an elevator in Building 68 with a couple of grad students ... myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... precious test time. 20.110 is designed to be graded out of 545 points: 100

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018