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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top ... to continue doing. So what is RUNE as a club like? We are a group of ... the mellowness - that way, it's easier to avoid bureaucracy, value each

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  general may seem now - you can and will find yourselves equal to it ... is not to overwhelm you with knowledge and make you want to shout "IHTFP!" from my (I mean, your) dorm room window. It's to show you exactly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  the freight industry. It's all new to me, coming from the passenger side of things. I suppose the best part is that it's all making sense so far ... context to lend. The hardest part about this work is getting up around 7AM

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  surreal to lecture where Eric Lander lectures. It was also totally surreal ... ) and then it was already five minutes into my class so I had to give up ... sun is just another star, then even further back to 16th century Poland

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need ... 't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their ... small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  . Maybe you went, "wow, is this title yet another bad pun?" And indeed, it is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... electronic device. I remember it reasonably well due to the traumatic nature of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education. You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  and the Spiritual/Right Now section. The final exam is there to provide ... ; It's felt quite anti-climatic to be done, a feeling that seems to ... least for me, it's hard to completely relax and resume to normalcy after

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  spring to celebrate Drop Date. Burton 3rd...is Burton 3rd, in all its glory ... opportunity to elaborate a little on what she said, because it's an interesting ... looks, in the words of my little sister, "like it's going to walk across

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... about when it came to Camp Kesem. At that time, I responded that I wasn ... -up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  . Best of all, the rink is open to all students nearly every day. It ... . This is a popular space for student organizations to advertise events ... heritage with the VSA – it's great to have a place where I can eat familiar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  ethnic minority in Vietnam. It is beautiful, and there is clean air, a ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  others. In Ramanan's case, the Red Cross is honoring one of its own. She ... to make a dance/drama. The dance can depict epics. It's the first form ... dance was such that she wanted to share it with others. "There are people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... construction and event planning. It is used for such things as the base of a sign ... lines from afar. It's essentially the public-transit equivalent to air

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  having made it better than when I arrived. Something I'd like to do is to ... contributing to patriarchal, oft Western beauty standards, and is it really that ... standards? Also, why does it take me an hour to do winged eyeliner? Worry

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020