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• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  anybody, except for this one Russian film version with a lot of broken ... front of the stage, which was necessary for that crucial scene where ... Guildenstern with an inflatable pool toy, swims around for a while, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of ... my senior year as practice for the PSAT on October 17. No test prep, no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... transformed.  The moment was ephemeral. For totality, the difference between 99 ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  side and that each section has much food for thought, so feel free to ... questions I still have for myself and the things I think about as I search for ... from waiting for Early Action decisions. Maybe these thoughts can help if

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , runner. I signed up for running mainly because I was not coordinated enough for team sports. Even though I am six feet tall, I always found ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  have enjoyed it thoroughly, so I'll reserve judgement for later. So far ... theory for people who know some amount of basic music theory." We're slowly ... Choir (6 units): I'm taking Concert Choir for the third semester! I really

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note ...  happened. It was the hardest year for me academically. I was filled with ... person--growing up, my mom signed me up for a million different sports

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I ... rest by finally writing about it. Glass Blowing For those of you who don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn ... the semester, and I’m still extremely grateful for his leniency and open

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be ... , today is a day for writing about vegetables." Ben and Vincent wrote two ... the news and think pieces and editorials for quite a while. And after

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... to me from me for my 21st birthday. Its lid broke during the move from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... gotta support me for the plot or something. also who knows maybe spiders ... the facts now oops"]she had to fix* those before the post was fit for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  the past overeating was a problem for me: sometimes I'd have a ... cook for my brother and I. Apart from one summer where I mastered only a ... , extracurriculars, and preparing for the [annotation note="Oh, how I hate to remember

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  split the class into 10 teams of approximately 100 kids, and for every ... Red Sox, but winning is fun and I wanted to have fun. For the first time ... stadium cheered for the red sox as Enmanuel Valdez hit a single with only

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... signed up for the course this fall. I also wanted to take this class ... already had for video. Lastly, I wanted to learn the basics of Premiere Pro

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then ... . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas ... how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for ... complete loser who feels really really good for a few hours every day.’ He

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022