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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... . Six years went by - six years of staying as far away from singing for an ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me ... different types of documentary, from the classically framed interview to cin

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and ... required from you. The most important rule of having a application missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my ... different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... else who did exactly this, and he had the time of his life.  I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on ... together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the ... . He helped write the band's music and played shows in front of hundreds

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears organically in the form of a hobby, or perhaps an inspiring book. Others may ... living up to another’s expectations. No matter the means of inspiration

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you ... NO.1 MOST FAVORITEST THING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It's an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... place several miles off the coast of Rhode Island and roughly three hours

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  and July). Now, for the meat-n-bread of what I’m doing, check out this ... **: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: What’s the name of the organization you’re working with again ... supervisor is Andrea Dean, CEO of Sustainable Initiatives, LLC. Andrea, along

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians ... of a mix of undergrads, grad students, and other people, some of whom go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... of writing a musical - but, in her words, "it was sort of a pipe dream

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  preparing an audition piece or go through the torture of auditioning. Luckily ... group which did auditions in groups of 8 with no solos. There were also ... back to Tech,” one of their classic nerdy MIT songs (the most

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a ... , haha) could have been used to describe me. Thanks to one of my friends ... time on the positive side of the emotional spectrum. She recently created

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  taught me: all that I have to be grateful for. I've got a great set of friends here at MIT who take care of me in times of ups and downs; there is an abundance of opportunities here at MIT to grow and learn more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  about the frame of reference that you use. When studying relative motion ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... investigate where your frame of reference lies. No, put away the calculators and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  hours upon hours of basically the same material each night. This semester ... , my classes for the GEL program are relatively free of curveballs when ... standard 12-unit MIT class. At the beginning of the semester, I heard there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read ... out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... 're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010