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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Brahms & Tomorrowland (2015)

  

  Recently, I've been spending a lot of time in the Lewis Music Library ... is almost always warm and quiet. I wanted to share pictures of the ... , the Lewis Music Library started giving away free sheet music. Dozen of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must ... mediocrity in both. In fact, 60% of interviewed students said that they planned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  --Steam Cafe offers two of each per day, one vegetarian and one meat. They change ... chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  will ever exist in the entire universe--but after three years of problem ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  been plunged untethered into the center of the universe, submerged in a ... thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... -baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or ... popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 MIT Admissions Statistics Summary statistics from the past year.

  

  later this year. 2006 MIT Admissions Statistics 11,369 students applied 1,513 admitted 2,965 students applied early action 377 students admitted early 2 ... regular action 2,568 international citizen students applied 110 admitted 389

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  that offers up so much wisdom and perspective to all of us. I can't wait ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  deliberate a lot, offering ourselves up to people, yet enjoy the sweet taste of ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  another one of us was in the process of applying to grad schools, and then ... coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course ... administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  ”, from the University of Warwick. I first read about it in the Math ... and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  offers and picked the other guy. After all, most of the professors are ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of ... kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  ="Next is known to have one of the best dining halls on campus, and so far the ... warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  University professors are often portrayed as self ... a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... , Prof. Kellis was honored as one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006