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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  make art is now a luxury. I recently told someone that I ‘paint a lot ... claustrophobia, a sense that if I don’t make something I can’t go on. Art is a ... as leaving a painting like that is physically painful, there’s a knot

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university level. The transfer application is intended for students who have
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  tells you what to do after that. I was floating around in a swamp swimming ... In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... forever? Well, another thing I realized is that I don't have to do anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  consequences. Is it depressing that I've seen it all before? That I'll be doing ... This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry. This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  and Practice. Although Lupe himself has said that CMS.S60 is not a music class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... This blog post is about the following picture: In particular ... got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... that it was a personal entry in my personal blog about my personal ... being human and for recognizing that I am the same. I had a long response

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  manhood in my head that I've conformed to all my life, and I wonder how much ... pictures and going "That's me. That's me in the picture. This is a picture of ... then there's the me that I see in the mirror, with a rounder face, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say ... past two or so years, I’ve held myself in a tug-of-war between doing ... worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th ... . Weird how that happens. On a tangential note, I recently discovered with ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this ... realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some ... "lycans," which is pronounced the same as "lichens," so that's what I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  job, but a lifestyle that is being sold to us. I eventually submitted ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  relationships. And a sense that I have not worked on anything deeply fulfilling in nine months. I’m not sure how to fix that. Chucking a writing class in ... bask in exhausted we-did-it glory the night of, when a thing is not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Fall 2020 Definitely a bunch of other times that I do not remember ... naps here. Dorm Room - what fun is there in that? Classes That Changed ... roll Do a blind cannoli taste test (i recommend trying Mike's, Modern

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively ... haven’t gotten over that yet. I didn’t do terribly well in my classes last ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  where my first class is a 10(:05)am. I shouldn’t have to mention that time ... : I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  function at any point. That’s how chaotic it is. Major Evolution: Math & ... major options left. And now I’m (almost) officially a double major in ... “ISIS is Us.” Once, they sang hymns in a lovely quartet. Every time, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016