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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in ... Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in ... in the Sonic Jubilance concert in the second week of the semester. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy ... , the observing shall continue until some point in the morning. Wahoo. 14 ... life and work on this blog. 15/01/2025 2:22 in my attempts to "fix my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  MIT. there are some key differences in academics between MIT and here. firstly, people mostly take classes in only their own major. i had the ... math classes or, as many math classes in the same semester. the other

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... mesmerized by the sudden change in scenery that nothing else could infiltrate

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to really explore the fields that they are interested in ... . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... mysterious liquid and peppered with stray hairs. [annotation note="In retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... incoherent ideas floating around in my head – something about broken things ... 'knot again' in the very last week"]knotted strips.[/annotation] We would

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  “regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film ... in [annotation note="do kids these days even know what shark tale is ... this information in the first place? Probably not! But now you know

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  in high school, though I think I prefer taking it now, when I'm more ... -Homeric civilization in Greece, before city-states, which was discovered by a German guy in the 1800s."]Mycenae[/annotation] as the original colonizer, how both

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... note="amazing feature, would recommend"]multiple inboxes[/annotation] in my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  moved in there was only a hexagonal frame in the courtyard, and by the next afternoon they’ve put pillars and more stuff in the hexagonal frame ...  three storeys high. Imagine that: three storeys. And the deadline was in a couple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... where you’ll be attending college. In reality, that is such a small part

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  In July we posted the blogger application. 88 students began an ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my entire life: my family’s house in Los Angeles (one week and 18 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... crab. Since I’m smiling in the picture, I can only presume that I was ... costumes in class! After class ended around 4pm (6.0002 recitation), I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... knocks.”  “Wow!” I replied in joking indignation, but swiveled past him ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014