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• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... generational trauma, being queer in a traditional Asian family, nihilism and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and ... decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos' conviction in the Philippines and then I would walk out and accept my fate

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... community are living in near MIT in a place we've dubbed "soft house," since ... four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable ... and put my back against the railing instead, taking the wind from in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  -disciplinary, flexible, and engaged with the larger world in ways many other departments ... few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... Studies and Planning   pictured, left, in the Tamale Peace Corps

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  the first year you're doing it on Kickstarter? Yeah. In the beginning it was basically my money—my mom actually chipped in a bit. The first year ... home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  who are fluent in both -- those who simply upon hearing my accent switch seamlessly into English. But also, those people are incredibly interesting in how they interact, particularly in the lab. Unsurprisingly, Germans

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... of the bad question that is, in essence, unanswerable. Now, if you ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  in the long awaited spring sun streaming through the windshield and ... for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our phones and unplug our Ipods at key moments in the day to fully engage in

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  further ado, let me tell you why. In no particular order, my classes: 7 ... track in American schools. I had learned some basic biology in 6th grade, some more in 7th grade, for a whole year in 9th (including some intense

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  for good opportunities, and when one recently appeared in my inbox, I ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my ... In ...Yeah. So, you probably recognize that slogan because it seems ... I will say that I believe politics are relevant, and in my mission to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental ... send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 ... talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  Marilee Jones was featured in an online chat on TIME.com, following up on ... joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, Marilee Jones has been a uniquely moral voice in the college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005