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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  markmaking feels increasingly fluid — "looseness" is the dynamic, expressive ... me that using charcoal is one of the first things they teach you to use ... favorite movie"]The Half of It[/annotation], painting a bold stroke is a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  I think was given by the inestimable Matt McGann, but I'm not really ... Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my ... during the summer. Unfortunately, the science options for the summer were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer ... Italian is offered, and only over IAP.) The very first humanities course I ... example: the word "and" in Spanish is "y" (pronounced like a long E), while

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  class builds on the skills taught in the general skating class. It is ... available at the rink. Fitness For Life This class is comprised of aerobic ... jugglers. The class is geared toward beginners, but students with previous

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  don't even know where to begin. I guess the beginning is best- I got here Saturday afternoon and was met at the airport by Mónica, who is the ... ! So she (her name is Berny) told me to come back the next day with all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  schedule."]at 8:05 PM[/annotation] in Kresge Auditorium, the lights will dim over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... burst onto the stage to welcome everyone to the [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  helped me. The morphine had helped me. Not God. I felt crushed and angry ... was not just me. It was the homeless man repeatedly stumbling into the ... attachment to the Intensive Care Unit. I did not blame God for my health crisis

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  , somehow harder than the actual task at hand! A little homebrew necromancy is ... writing and not-writing I just realized that I didn’t exactly feel the same ... lower it, because one of the worst symptoms of depression is in how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural ... 's birth house, which was closed by the time we got there. Not that there ... root for the underdogs, and also because Zinedine Zidane is astounding

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  will physically not drive unless the user's seatbelt is buckled, and then ... here, where Taylor focuses on the assemblage. It is not just the game we ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  ="aligncenter" width="750"] Poisson image editing — it's hard to tell but the "WOW" is in ... . Whether I actually improved or not is up for debate. I couldn't decide what ... Tom Cruise and wrote a 20-page script based on it. The final script is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  into this, because the actual story is way less cool. In fact, it ... freshmen in my suite about how the story behind my accident is really lame ... Laurens on the floor as well. Yeah, it's confusing), who is also a huge

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way ... plenty of people regret not having taken one. The bottom line here is that ... ... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home that’s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... to say, since this blog's title is not "The Counting Crows are Life: The Rest is Just Chemistry and Physics". But I totally rocked out and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  during the weekend, there is a huge support system here at MIT to help you ... do not feel safe or are in an emergency at any time during the weekend ... the MIT shuttles to get back to campus.  She thinks that she is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Part 1 here. *     *     * Rush Holt is in the room, but most ... speech. And now that the Congressman is physically in the room, the ... Subcommittee, Congressman Butterfield’s office is leading the letter, the staff

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  idea behind freshman advising seminars is one of the student and advisor ... the class or a 100 in the class. I'm not terribly crazy about chemistry ... is the standard introductory physics course offered to freshmen at MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... the kitchen is stocked 24/7 with chobani, cereal, and coffee - the 3 Cs ... " align="aligncenter" width="750"] walking to the beach from work is a bit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally ... -games-I’ve-played-are-Frogger-and-Oregon-Trail n00b. As in, the-only-programming-experience-I-have-is-using-the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  not think this is that important, but when you're rocking the twin extra ... ." ...wow. Get ready folks, this is not an either or entry. You get both ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006