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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  one painting, it can still work in another. I've been drawing for most ... this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... time I've drawn in this sketchbook. During life drawing sessions, a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  ’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... , I’m also wearing Merino wool socks in this picture. Merino wool comes ... thing that gets cold in the winter are your phalanges (i always loved that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  of my photos have changed in size. I'm not quite sure how this happened ... I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did ... 's quite simply one of the best games in the world. Looking the hack over, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... was. Note my amused face in this picture.  Or it can be bad when ... how hectic my schedule is I always make time to hang out with my friends

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and unpack later (in some imaginary future wherein I have ample unstructured ... and Planning major in me got real excited. The exhibit considers "how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT ... space as grad students. The thing is, UROPs can be anything, really. I ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  's all about how you want to structure things. In DUSP, there are four ... you have the chance to explore offerings in any field and see how you'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  CPW and can’t imagine yourself in the active community from the i3 video ... ” activities like building rollercoasters and fire-spinning. As proof, I can ... . People can be miserable in, say, Next House just as much as in EC. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... 's video on eggs, I was pretty confident in my abilities. I unfortunately don ... really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my ... taking so long meant that i was a bad person. i wondered how my friends

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  people, I’ve “defroshed”. I’m starting to see cracks in the system I can ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... —eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I'M STUPID AND MIT MADE A MISTAKE WITH ME IF I CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND A BASIC

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  . It's the grad student run pub in Walker Memorial, which means I can ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... Punjabi dialogues that I just couldn't figure out (I am not really fluent in ... single person with levels of enthusiasm every single day that I can only

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010