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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... quirky little hole-in-the-wall bookstore (in my friend's words, "it has ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... :00 . . . that's AM, in case this isn't clear, which it probably isn't to my ... Avenue, half-groggy and half juiced with adrenaline. Within 20, I'm in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Signing in from sunny foggy and snowy and icy and rainy Greenbelt ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... , really. Possibly more importantly, no meal plans or dining halls in sight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work ... in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  a proper one, so i just kinda put something together in a few minutes ... . it's nice being back in this room. it's warmer than my room in simmons ... been removed from it. but well, people are moving in this weekend, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... a lot about (2) in particular. These past couple of days I've been wading in a sea of big thoughts and feelings, but I can't individually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas ... family of four. In Bambi times, animals feared humans. Now the mama deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style. In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... discussed, in class, our favorite and least favorite styles. Then we were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  teacher in high school, and your passion for physics has nudged and ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in ... . Deadlines for this year's honors start in early 2006. And with the holiday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... time. I'm working my first in person internship, a real corporate job ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  wrote when I shared that post on social media: "In Colorado, we only had farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special ... --especially when, in this day and age, bad news is always a mouse-click away. Rather

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by ... raucous men out in the parking lot blasting loud country music. While all ... Preview Weekend, the MIT Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team was in lab, packing up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  challenging. In 2024 I developed strength and self reliance. Obviously it ... that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... successfully after a while, choose to take in the things that bring color to my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be ... contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at least Chris…

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the ... and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... ) wristband. Happy Monday, MIT! Also my roommate picked up my first paycheck in ... elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015