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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  like the Crypto-Challenge sponsored by the NSA, who want you to try to ... ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  's one answer I found: going to lectures by the super cool people who come ... producer/friend to Lady Gaga) highlighted the ways technology has disrupted ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Elizabeth '13 has a good point: we all need some way to show you we're not ... presence. It'd be sort of like, I don't know, being a drummer, and going to a ... there is no power supply.* You'd be justifiably (not to mention, in this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  soon as possible, start your own life, and not be told when to go to bed and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... fight scenes, which have to be carefully choreographed (here by our fight ... length. It took me a month to cut down what turns out to be Shakespeare

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to ... a talk by Eric Lander (awesome). From 2:00PM - 4:00PM, I'll be ... Water War & Bouncy Ball Drop is not to be missed, and Resonance is rocking

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  in their PNR ways Instead learning the trials that come to all. Beware ... enough (I planned it), this happens to be the first day of classes on ... feels dissociative to be in this class. I feel like biochem has a lot of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  drafting dots! Drafting dots, by the way, are used to mildly tape down ... work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is ... -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  blog entries might be a bit sparse over the next three months due to an ... . 2. My job. However, the computer is supposed to only be used for ... window, but somehow the only people that ever seem to be in there with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  appreciative but balanced way; I had never been exposed to the very New England ... appreciated: MIT students as a whole tend to be [annotation note="as you might ... around tend to be dependable; [annotation note="I cannot stress to you how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  tend to be less undergraduate-heavy, populated primarily by researchers ... fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to ... ; hosted by MIT Libraries I went to this same event last year and it was

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  more ways to engage with others that doesn’t involve being together ... article, and something I am still actively trying to work my way out of ... going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  easiest. It should be covered by the classes you took and your grades and ... have to be academic. It might be more interesting if some of them aren ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  to where the problems are. Be rigorous. There are ways to test ... they may be of use to you in some way shape or form. --- And one ... into college. We can count on ALWAYS being in a rush to accomplish more

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  most things but I'd be careful when applying this to choice of major. I ... in which you will really be able to participate and positively ... inverse, to not pick things just because they are by and large considered

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  am a freshman (soon to be sophomore!) very much engaged in both the ... ’ve been able to pursue at MIT one way or the other. I especially am ... summer before I came here, but the notion behind it has come to be a sort

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... thing you could do would be to come here, stay with an MIT student, and ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  to me knows, but you are as free as you want to be at MIT. You can take ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and ... 's no one correct way to narrow them down, but it's always super important

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  project there, is that too trivial to be even considered at MIT? Would it also be beneficial for my research mentor to write me a recommendation in ... be reviewed in full with your entire application. To answer your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  HASS readings. So I scrape by, I do exactly what I need to do, and all ... trip, and by settling, we have forgotten how to live. Put more eloquently ... , to be curious again, and that has been lovely. TBD whether that will

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019