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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  absolutely horrific when written down.']normal.[/annotation] Still, in the past few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing ... ,[/annotation]and, in the years immediately post-COVID, there simply was not a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... Germany, Italy, France, and China thrown in. It’s really fascinating to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... technologies from 18 households without electricity in Kien Svay, developing and

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just look at the message and don't respond. In Spanish as in English, you ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for ... in order to create something fun and new. For example, painting skills ... roles of their characters as effectively as possible in a strange and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  up nicely when he posted on Facebook today that "the differential in ... up at 8:30, sat in bed cooing at pictures of adorable baby zoo animals ... in French House, celebrating the beginning of my week off by (finally

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... notes I take in a typical week of classes.  2.086- Numerical Computation ... before every lecture (1.5 hrs MW), so I opt to listen in and annotate those

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the ... ! Something Old... The Nance Effect is immersed in the annual road trips ... , MI; Milwaukee, WI; Greater Chicagoland, IL and the greatest city in the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their ... in. And if you’re like most every regular action college applicant ... week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Luke Plummer ... -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... plugged in a hand dynamometer (which basically measures the force of a

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  wave my cell phone in the air.) Despite sleeping something like 16 hours ... in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ ... program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in finance, mathematics, political science, etc. Similarly, in the economics Ph

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Rambax and Galak Tika used to rehearse in Building N52 – a 10-minute walk off campus. Now they have a space right in the center of campus ... , two musicians can play in adjacent rehearsal rooms and not hear each

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  taken over by fill-in-the-blank item of extreme hosage: this summer, it's being in lab all the time for my UROP and working at the Senior Haus front ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008