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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by ... (opposite the cork part) is a "stem". It can be pulled all the way out of the ... In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my ... –and also by how the perspective has flipped. Instead of being the undergrad ... you might not be able to tell.) Instead of scrambling to find a research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... write about being miserable. I think people at MIT like to be miserable ... busy. I didn't use to think I was the kind of person who liked being

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... ideal location to move after graduation would probably be NYC ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  somewhere a long way away. I don't know if this joy will be able to persist ... senior year I got to be on campus, living life but not living it too much ... medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  . What a way to end my spring break! As I ate brunch back at Simmons Hall ... for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... thought I’d have to give up my identity of being a musician in favour of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and ... ways it’s even better than Drown." Yay. Then, much to my surprise, Junot ... From: David Subject: Re: go see Junot! To: [email protected] He'll also be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who ... trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... other people are working there. The best way for me to study/work is to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  you think you'll never be ready to leave and then suddenly you just can ... way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  monster (not including travel time) and by the time I got back to the apartment, all I wanted to do was eat nectarines (which, by the way, are ... hopefully be able to continue into the future. I’ve only just begun, so I have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  even know. I'm here to challenge all three of those positions. Being ... to grow complacent after being admitted somewhere, or to become ... so much to be done. That drive to achieve and make the most of any

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the ... CycleGAN could be trained on the tiny blogger dataset. So I decided to ... ,[/annotation] so we wouldn’t be able to generate avatars for specific people. Let

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  might think), I decided that it was time for us to part ways. And so ... specs can be exorbitant. And there does not seem to be common wisdom as to ... advice would be to defer judgment, if possible. If you have a serviceable

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... this later, by which I mean, after I make some slides to actually present

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... Lab (way too cool!) to the "Meet the Bloggers" event (Hello Yan!!! I ... Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still ... outside information to help you. Of course high school can still be very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  49 hours a semester, but if you want to be really good at your job you ... to gain experience by working as much as possible, especially before ... concert (which actually turned out to be a very bad mistake, because Tom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... , as I'm sure Sam will be excited to know, the book mentions the Maillard ... visitors. It was a good zoo! I think if I weren't going to be a cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Hi, Cami here. I'm so excited to bring to you this guest blog post by ... involved I could be was how much time and effort I was willing to put in. 3 ... -vital components until they can be secured by recovery. [caption id

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS ... to stay! By the time we got very close to the ticket booth, we ... to see if they’d be able to get tickets. After 3 minutes that felt like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018