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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... ’d been eyeing for a while. I strutted around for a bit before my ankles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... well as to the dorm as a whole. East Campus residents weren’t always ... mural, and a section of their hallway called Black Bemis. As you can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar ... a reasonable fraction of the 700+ events to attend? I was definitely ... be helpful to post a Mini-Guide to CPW for your final hours of prep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in English!) JSF is a really unique program. Unlike IAP Madrid, which I did last year, it’s not a class (no homework—yay!!!). Instead of going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  day for almost a year now. (Freshman fall was a different, more virtuous ... an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most ... , changing those walks to speed-walks was a fairly simple transition. Most of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  Personally, I have always considered myself a pretty social person. I have always loved just spending a bunch of time hanging out with friends ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... those kids that spent half their time in various awkward positions on a couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no ... convinced that existing primarily at night has been a bad thing, but most

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... take a nap. 1.5 hours later, I wake up and start frantically packing. I ... , a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a ... Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  sunshine streaming through the frosted window - I was greeted with a ... . Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of ... insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... some advice from a current interviewer named Nikki Springer. Here are ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary clock from scratch, cruised around in a limousine, met Randall Munroe

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... ’s Acting with the Camera (21M.624) class and taking a tour of MIT ... German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... Institute, or RSI, a summer program for rising high school seniors around the ... paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  GEL 2-Year students). The assessors fill out a "blue card" with feedback on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  business which brings you this entry a few days late. Now, here is a blog post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed.: that is, a year before June 25, 2010... It's perhaps shocking and quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010