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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The ... felt missing, at least Pi/3 radians of my heart...It's great to have him ... From: rich Subject: LOST CAT Date: January 22, 2008 1:22:26 AM EST To

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not for a flimsy reason of short-term convenience like it being easier to move your stuff within a dorm than between dorms. Thanks to a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate ... dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... internalized misogyny, by other people’s expectations of who I was “supposed” to ... faded. I wanted to preserve that version of Rona before she was lost to

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

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  ) and February of this year. Last semester, on a whim, I decided to ... got to introduce one of the monologues and play one of four transgender ... the actresses, so I really wanted to join. Best decision of my winter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  A's to gain entry to MIT." I'm not sure of the answer to your first ... the end of January to mid-February? They are online classes, so it takes ... -February should leave them with plenty of time to make an informed decision. As for

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  head because it is a marine ecology lab. Talk to one of your supervisors ... 't know how to drive, and chances are, that's an important part of going on ... that it's summer and the population of people wanting to take driving

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  the hole as a result of our EFC, but my entire family has had to make ... than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer ... lot of money to apply to graduate school (GRE general test, GRE subject

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... blah.) Since I know a lot of people will be needing to make a college ... chose MIT. 1. I knew I wanted to be a biology major of some stripe, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  feel all of my feelings until my body hurt too much to feel anything else ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... pain I was trying to escape from was the only way of feeling truly whole

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  abroad during the summer or IAP can come back and present to the rest of ... QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... , himself, part of the very simulation he thought he'd been hired to design

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... forward to classes starting. Not to mention had to go to classes when they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some ... . At least a few hours. Try to visit most of the dorms! Even if there ... . Meeting your potential classmates and teachers is one of the best ways to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries ... meantime I've finally responded to your most recent comments at the end of ... Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a ... current feelings to a personified July. Because of my summer class (to be ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to ... of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I ... Huey Lewis & The News") that I needed to have on the spur of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... greets me every day as I walk down this hallway to my side of the building ... never intended to live in a meal plan dorm. I'm kind of picky about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021