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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  failing miserably very fast. By 3:14 on that day, the combination of numbers ... 0 expectations of getting in (again) and was really shook by it all ... found myself being pretty well described by [annotation note="this is the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  mother, and was badly chastised by Rational Part Of Brain. For good reason ... that by "doesn't do a lot of singing" my boyfriend actually meant "one of ... At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... would typically just dub, ignore, let sink into the crumbling abyss of my ... -40 hours per week. But getting a glimpse of the 360 Photography Class on the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of ... meaning of the word enough, could also mean something expensive, valuable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  , and that whole journey will be a separate post, and by the end of it i ... of tissue, then move that to the recipient's hole[/caption] needless ... intensity of that week. i'm taking a step back and realizing that it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  years, dozens of students representing MIT's nine acapella groups will ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones

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

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... bunch of science-y books and shirts that say “Future Scientist” and “(e

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the opportunities I have here? Am I happy here? During one of my reflection times, one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  you can! Sam   I was so excited by the prospect of this costume ... DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... front of him is a two-way mirror through which a nervous-looking aardvark ... chin in direction of the aardvark) Case 815. PIERCE: Case 815

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  sides of the dorm are inconveniently not connected by any actual hallway ... the answers. I used to save up questions and answer a bunch of them at once, but then the plan always got messed up by my actual entries. See

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  Monica I was truly blown away by the beauty of the beach. There was even ... A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  I’m reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and really ... the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees ... a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... Metropolis, one of the central maker spaces run by Project Manus. As someone ... about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  ! (Now that I think of it, NOW, time is going by too quickly. I haven ... on the right is a drawing of me by one of the students!)      ... 3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story ... here. This story is also accompanied by three strategies I thought were helpful. There are a number of things I could discuss about this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024