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• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... on the ground All I wanna do is fly away 'Cause I'm trying to find the ... world Where in the world is all the time? So many things I still don

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a selection of images from the past month that have a similar vibe of not-quite

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  -to-be-abandoned building because a place is never really about the place, it's about the ... i'll be one of the last to leave i guess this is also the conclusion ... https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  cappella is big at MIT - we've got the Logarhythms, Chorallaries, Toons ... A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was ... I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New ... I designed as my group members snuck micro-naps in the back. The

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... kids. These kids are not extraordinary. What's extraordinary is that ... I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  crowds knew I existed or not. (When I was in elementary school, one of the ... other people think. I chose not to care about the opinions of people who ... polymath is that everyone feels they have the right to a slice of my time. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  .  The final score in the decision matrix is not what determined my ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... thing I’m slowly learning is: Don’t judge a good decision by how the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  the most fun is building, well, a bridge. It is pretty much what it ... the water level, but other than that, it is really up to our ... countries ( a minor part of the project), it can be quickly assembled and is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... colleges - but MIT's is very unique!), is one of the many reasons why I love ... in exotic locales (okay, maybe not so exotic), this IAP had been REALLY

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  , singing praises all the way home. If you live somewhere, you're not pressed ... and in life, too. I guess getting there is really more than half the fun. Today is the first day of IAP, and I attended my first French 1 class. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... . Part 2 is from freshman spring 2015. Senior winter 2018, I do not endorse ... is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin ... is, as many days as I begrudgingly dragged myself to the dinner table like a snotty teenager, not having family dinner time was one of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  patterns. To the extent that this is true - and to the extent that Apple ... Jobs was one of the most influential people in my life. Not because I ... receipts in Apple stores. Not so much as a single pixel passed through the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  :   The first is a straight mute, and the second is a cup mute. The ... (opposite the cork part) is a "stem". It can be pulled all the way out of the ... required for a note is different than on a trumpet. Pulling the giant black

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  't appear on the mymit tracking section. "Patience rocks" is a good guideline ... . ------------------------------------- Sam wrote: "I was deferred, and really do not like the essay I wrote. I ... 's probably not worth the time. ------------------------------------- Alex wrote

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  whacky number scales: sometimes, the class average is a 40%. And you never ... restaurant (I did not even know $$$$ restaurants existed!). The restaurant used ... ’re not on campus, i will blog about SOS soon. Tapestry: the beautiful

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the United States. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  when the Indian one is so vibrant. How could I not feel an affinity for ... , this show did not meet my expectations. It did many things well and is ... it. The main character, Devi, is an outgoing and brash girl whose two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my ... kid. North is far older than South- several decades ago, back before the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008