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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  be the standard spelling at MIT, although I can't really figure out why ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More on that later. I looked this up in Wikipedia and turns out, St. George ... . I whipped out my camera and we agreed that whatever it was, it would

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  vegetable-haters, I hope this can be another recipe in your limited list of ... cooker?  In short, rice cookers are amazing. I hear their younger cousin ... of the few meals where I can see the onions and tomatoes go into making

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  school." In response, Asli helped me out, writing, "Timmy, I've started ... it. For me, I preferred smaller groups: going out to eat in Boston ... opinion. I can tell you that we didn't place any students in fraternities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... much top secret). - You can't live in your fraternity during your ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  complete internships or study abroad in some cases, I spent my first IAP here ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... with trail mix, granola bars, and some notebooks on physics, I head out

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... , and I came out as trans in high school. Yet still, it took me until my ... AND THRIVING. thankyouverymuch! 3. Though I only came out as trans in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  friend and I were at a debate tournament in Cheyenne the day they came out ... time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job ... through while growing up and also because i’m worry-prone in general, so

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  table. After all, it's too nice out to be "in the classroom," literally ... it's just as pretty as ever.  Derek and I revel in the art, and then we ... across campus to Next. I consider turning in at this point, but MIT's Music

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  's because i felt that i've been left alone, out in the harsh world, to fend ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... this: I got a lot out of writing about my experience at MIT-- the ups and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  .03, though it's extremely obvious that I haven't taken a math class in a year ... much get to watch videos in every class and check out various photographs ... . Aside from chasing a freaked-out squirrel through a corridor, I haven

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  little bit. In the past semester or so, I've realized that being an MIT ... course numbers: “18.02, 5.112, 7.012, and 8.012.” So I know I'm not in ... they feeding my nephew out there in New England? It's like he's talking

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

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... going to the darkroom because it’s “therapeutic”. I can’t exactly disagree

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... for fun more often, maybe I can be cool too.” Writing for fun usually ... "cool," but I did find out that I enjoy oversharing. Lo and behold, I now

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  realities of college. I will contemplate the practice in the end, and a color ... my hall, and I expect to be detained by people. In the evenings, they ... irresistible, and normally I give in to temptation. After a day of important

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of ... policy problems in general. I think what I’ve enjoyed most this month is ... in my mind even as I’m walking home from the classroom in Building 35

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  can't teach well!! They're brilliant, of course, in research ... , for the record, I don't believe that 80% of Caltech's professors can ... tough is MIT? If I score 800s in all my SAT IIs, will it be easy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006