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• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... Admissions] and give them a powerpoint before we could proceed with anything ... each universe we included some sort of a mood board, so here's the one

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of ... that some of them are so very final. Earlier this year, a friend of mine ... , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But right now, it's wrapped around in a blanket and shielded by pillows, all stuffed in a cardboard box that is locked away in a storage unit. We usually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a completely silent store. “failed an exam”: I got a 12 on a 5.12 exam even after

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  about this place I would call home, and I felt a drive to be social, to ... "]the answers to those questions,[/annotation]and this place feels like a home and not a brief and wild summer camp, and so I’m starting to be able to hear

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an ... culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... of the MIT Symphony Orchestra or Concert Choir. Fun fact: Kresge is a perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  Kevin C. '17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad ... the MIT Formula SAE team as an undergrad. What follows is a post Kevin ... friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Lou Guenier, Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  Reviews: “Eco-chic.” -a freshman critic from Maseeh “The prizes ... .” -a sophomore on the Trashion committee “It was all trash! Beautiful ... the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... obligated to continue. Sometimes I feel like I’m slowly devolving into a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I ... wasn’t sure whether to declare a double major or settle with a minor ... field anyway, so why not start early with a relevant degree? MIT did not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . Sorry guys. Hope you didn't have your heart set on a real, live, poetic ode. As a freshman, I would, on occasion, hear people talking about the MIT Tunnels. Back then, it was tunnels with a capital "T" because to my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  on a rather painful hike in the snow. This camping trip was a little ... way to the cabin to grab some food. There was a beautiful view on the ... anything other than the beautiful sunset, a ton of stars and the Milky Way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... these national scholars and competition people and I'm just a guy from ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... teaching creativity-building educational modules at a youth shelter in Phnom

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... dad’s night job as a taxi driver, combined with my parents’ negligible

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011