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• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i ... can stop everything in my life for this great blue and then, when i feel ... announce itself.  happiness is a more fleeting concept. it is this high

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  actually purchased a vlogging camera for this class. I purchased a Sony ZV-1 ... advocating for one side. I chose to do my video on MIT's closed campus policy ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBLKXmD7-bQ[/embed] 1. Scripting MISTAKE: Not scripting first. For the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... Chef, I’m dusting off the cookbooks and asking mom for advice. I was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  because I was looking for sympathy, kind words, or anything like that. I ... created for myself had collapsed. Oh, and remember that void I was talking ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi ... imagined that that it would be the place for me. If you're a prefrosh and ... for it! Here's a stellar guest post from current resident Dan Parker '15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the

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

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

  

  fleeting fifth-grade dreams of being a mechanical engineer. When I was being ... for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  various sizes. The culprit? Well, most pinned the blame on Amazon for its ... Prime membership (with free two-day shipping) for a year. And, supposedly ... than anyone else on this matter. I purchased tea, a scrapbook, and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  Bridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also ... to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... . But really, for me the institute has been great in this regard. I hardly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting ... leaving for another planet. But that's how it is. This is not the Earth

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  I think the saying "a penny for your thoughts?" is really rather ... sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English ... Thomas More's Wikipedia page, however, that is relevant for this blog is

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to my final semester without taking any classes elsewhere. I signed up for ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  deceptively suave, are nothing more than clumsy stunt doubles for the ... wish: to pluck the wings of a fleeting moment, spread it out in the ... MIT for a week. I was comparatively oblivious to the importance of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... offers. Thus, this semester marks a brand new start for me at MIT. Moral ... and purchasing a fancy new planner), I invested in a new laptop! Now

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... raucous downpour of Cantonese vernacular. We've regretfully purchased a bag ... , in the midst of dispossessing my own kidney and grapethirsting for ripe

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  felt like for that fleeting moment where I stood on the podium at state ... calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I ... semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... small fleet of Internet bookmobiles -- which operate in San Francisco ... lending a book out can approach $2 for some libraries; printing out a black

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... for me to take all of those classes. So I'll have to settle with 21M.235

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and ... worse – the dreaded neckbeard. And for something entirely automatic ... strong persevere in the knowledge of what the Novembeard was: a fleeting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  On the day before my non-senior friends left for home, we went out on ... wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best ... dragons, named Mushu and Crickey. I made another embroidered thing for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018