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• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as trees flow endlessly past the window, of loneliness and stagnancy and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  mine more exhausted than when I embarked. So I've spent most of the day ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which ... 's current exhibit of Tavares Strachan's show, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might ... would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2016 are now available at decisions.mit.edu You can log in ... of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... I reached the Huntington Street entrance of the MFA that afternoon

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their embryonic guts over the creamy, supple blankness of winter vacation. This

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire ... your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of ... high school every day and had a job all through my high school years. Of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... . This concept of thinking is mind-boggling academically, but it is the main support of art. What's the answer? There isn't one. Don't worry. If

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total of five, maybe six hours at most. But even those brief experiences were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... next fall. Regardless of whether you applied early, most of you should be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began ... by Dr. Roderic Ivan Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... something totally out of the ordinary, something beyond the confines of computer science or even STEM. The course description read: The history of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some of our current all-star bloggers like Paul or even some of the ... Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations ( NALFO ). NPHC is a national

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  , where I long to be... Okay I'm done now. I've taken way too many photos of ... second of the day, so did every second of being at MIT.  Sometimes, the twinkling lights of the Prudential tower accompanied me into the late hours of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017