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  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... have an explicit desire to spend 8 hours staring at a photo of plums, but ... art, my delight at its existence, my enjoyment of the artistic process

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  depends on who's blogging at the time and what they want to get out of it ... that I have a record of my life at MIT that I can revisit and that other ... Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  reflection of a present. Just because we all ended up at MIT does not mean we ... at MIT. If there is something you want to do, there is always some way to do it. There are classes of all varieties from bookmaking to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  semester at MIT, and I think the problem with this type of life was that I ... spend literally all of your time doing work. At any given point in time ... to do. However, it is not the kind of thing that I enjoy for weeks at a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  always has been) where I reside at MIT and where I spend most of my time of ... the cabin. There were at least twenty of us up there, putting our ... at 5am to be super hardcore, and the rest of us hung around the fire

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  . Or at least one of the rotating cast of characters who played Tim. Now ... Earlier this month we launched one of our new admissions videos called MIT Imagination. A lot of work went into that video. Elizabeth and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  conversational French improved more in those two weeks than in years of classes at ... at the University of Washington. We (well, some of us) played Settlers of Catan at 2am, and stayed up all night psetting (a good preview of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  remaining until we are seniors. This is scary as I look at the long list of ... past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  as well as check out a live tracker of smile intensity at all four ... Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking ... face. This mood meter is part of the MIT150 Festival of Arts, Sciences

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so that you can get a sneak preview: Next, a hearty round of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  are at the beginning of Easter term so there’s panic over the last ... ;m sitting at home while writing this. Most of the other people on the ... differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  After reading Chris' blog entry about Thanksgiving at MIT, I thought ... to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2.5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  several decades of history by a madcap, magpie voice that’s equally at home ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. And then laugh at people who think that MIT doesn ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  : It's Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... We held it at the Boston Sheraton In this picture, the Sheraton is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  at me. I didn't do it. Speaking of EC, this evening when I was walking home from studying at the student center, these had been strung from the ... ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon, I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and ... at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information ... So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of ... confused anyone. I wasn't trying to give examples of things that got people accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004