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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  songs - it flows, and holds together by the use of little musical ideas ... big. If you need to know one thing about Wagner, that might be it. The ... premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  competition video here because a grainy 480x360 video can't do it justice - you ... to say that FIRST is a prerequisite for admission, or that it gives you ... intersect comparatively often. To use the language of formal logic, FIRST is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  . What is there to study here that isn't Technology? It turns out, due to ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real ... Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  postdoc attempts to publish anything and everything he/she can in order to ... group. MIT students were very used to being involved in extracurriculars ... Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  're weird. And I can scan in writing assignments from fourth grade to prove ... . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... members who are MIT alums -- they all asked to see my Brass Rat. (One walked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... too stubborn to drop anything, so there's nothing that can be done ¯\_(ツ ... friday morning office hours to beg for help before it's due at 5 pm. but it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to ... 's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin ... the 2009 Young (under 35) Innovator of the Year. It's my former GRT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  SCENES, BUT SPECIFICALLY IT WAS USED AMAZINGLY IN "SHE USED TO BE MINE ... get student rush tickets), to mentally “just claim it!” So that’s what ... about feeling trapped and lost and not knowing where to go. It's about

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  director Michel Gondry was here just prior to CPW, he made it a point to ... to the website Then read the News Office article Finally, watch the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  this with Sara '11, MA born and raised, and quickly began to realize that ... proceeded to listen to them. A lot. I'm glad I did, because it's one of the ... when I walked out of my dorm to head to Physics I noticed something

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  , because now I can put up a few photos from moments that were good enough to ... overstocked textbooks. As you can see, it's sparsely decorated, but one ... took place in the early nineties. It was meant to motivate us and remind

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  standardized American can to shame. It's a totally different cultural experience ... accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get used to - such as on the day before I started working at RIKEN, when I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... 'm just kidding about the first part. It wasn't that cold. In an attempt to ... drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it ... with my Legos; when it comes to you, you should explore all of your new ... as you can.) It is, however, my very particular plan for this very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... shooting the turkeys, think of it as an opportunity to focus all of your ... name shot out before? After shooting out some letters it was time to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... to make it almost impossible to succeed. Yet despite their situation ... could do nothing to change and honestly…… It terrified me. Now before I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  luck than any wit or skill – and I can show this using the data collected ... location over another, so it was hard to predict the actions of other players ... ) chose to hide there, so it would have been a great place to seek. Hiding

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  read it. Every so often, though, I follow Ben's link to his CC comments ... completely agree that it should not be a competition to see who takes the most ... scheduling so that it was impossible for students to take more than 2 or 3 AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  hijacked but it had also been used to take random pictures. I perused them ... to see how it had turned out. Instead of seeing the wonderful picture ... -enjoying our three hour cruise was over and it was time to head back to the dorm

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  an unsustainable rate. It can be hard to mark time at Mathcamp. For ... inherently interesting as MIT, it can be easy to fall into the banalities of ... last year of Mathcamp. In hindsight, it’s no surprise that I applied to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025