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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  "Jewels", which is a three-act ballet created by George Balanchine ... ever, aka head honcho (RIP). Each act is represented by a different jewel ... hype factor). The orchestral arrangement (performed by a live orchestra

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... Hayden Library, settling onto one of the cushioned seats by the massive ... by R.F. Kuang about a young Chinese scholar studying at Oxford in the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  for, uh, weeks. I eventually got one in, but by then I was too hosed to ... and forth for a while. Eventually I pulled up Wade’s step-by-step CAM ... every mouse-click, which was actually so useful. By now it was 2 am. I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  lot of [annotation note="my list: all about love by bell hooks, crying in hmart by michelle zauner, detransition, baby by torrey peters, stone butch blues by leslie feinberg"]reading[/annotation], and a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  /family and was struggling to navigate it. By and large I’ve crossed that rocky sea now, the wounds more healed by time than anything I or the other ... year! I am very happy! got stuff published in magazines run by people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on ... floor up into the foothills of the mountain, surrounded by towering trees ... by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  , reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the ... students of 1885-1895 and the MIT students of today. By 1895, 38 States, 1 ... the youngest of the family which has been brought into being by the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  creeps in--be undone? Not by fear. The humidity turns this courtyard into ... , in a fragile state. Families and communities are torn apart by unlawful ... bodies are torn apart by bullets their taxes paid for. Our humanity is torn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for undergraduate education in the case of an undergraduate student or by the dean for ... in hopes that I would be better by Monday, but when that didn’t happen

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  “free stuff” portion of the event, we stopped by the prize “wheel”. Three ... room, we passed a cube of pins by Tara Donovan and a rug of pins by Mona Hatoum. In the next room was an example of political satire in art by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  ' technical, designed and built by technical people for technical reasons. But ... shaped not only by technical standards, but by the often utopian aspirations of its architects, and by the local and global communities that have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... the Stata Center by the entrance near where Sean was killed.   ... read a description of the memorial written by Professor J. Meejin Yoon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  next generation e-commerce startup. In stealth mode." By October many of ... with job opportunities offered by MIT alumni. These positions cover ... combination of technology and fashion design. By December I knew I would be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... group of friends and I went to Singing Beach by Manchester-by-the-Sea (yes, that is actually the name of the town), which was easily accessible by

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  check out by noon on May 21st. Conveniently, this was the day after my ... sort out and clean, but you'd never know that by looking at my dorm room ... that was touched by my incessant need for a challenge. From the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things ... brain that hadn’t been pickled by an especially-awful problem set yet. And ... into the dusky afternoon sky, and was hit suddenly and thoroughly by a

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  . Thankfully, the usual exam tables were replaced by the following decorations ... the dance floor and covering up our noob status by fiddling about with ... it quits. Accompanied by two friends, I made my way back to Mc

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday ... Seattle, rented a Jeep that had been designed by someone specializing in the ... . But I've never before been on a duck tour captained by a man who wore a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... venue. (Photo by CST) The Central Square Theater, home to two theater ... playwright. Truth Values, written by Gioia De Cari in 2008, is a roman à clef

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009