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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... Aeneas. We studied this opera in my music class, and I was excited to hear ... my music class, we listened to his Overture in D Minor and Sonata No. 3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  the hundreds of meals in advance, regardless of how many you actually ... once a week, I get to eat with the brothers whenever I want. Being the ... backpack after leaving the dining hall. Not sure how that keeps getting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston ... in the morning is amazing. Then go to Bunker Hill and climb the stairs ... have been a waste of the energy required to get to the top of the hill

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  freshman student, I decided to jump in and get started on problem 4, just to ... MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... names is to just get married in MA."]more name change paperwork ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  physically building things. Even though I would love to learn how to construct ... according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  expected to be so involved in. It’s been really cool to get the direct ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... get from talking to them when you know, without either of you actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  stream of hip-hop songs that direct us to get low and throw our hands in ... was May 3rd. In addition to the stress of graduation, we also needed to ... pointers on how to find a date, things to discuss with your date, etc. They

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many ... bubble - it can be easy to get caught up in whatever role you've taken on ... settles in EC gets flaming pink hair, nor are we all engaged in “intense

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

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Muthukrishna, just graduated and is off to get his PhD. He helped catch me up to ... phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  is nice. Also, I love that we get to work in groups since I haven ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular science section in Barnes and Noble. I knew I was getting a book addiction ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of ... . See, I used to run. (Used to.) It was back in my freshman year of high

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were in Montana, how many little communities. Next to Montana are Washington ... to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  history, with a supplemental education in how to pay bills, how to split ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  will happn but hey, you gotta have goals in life, right? We get to have ... involved in that bus going over that cliff?? How?! And why isn't it next ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  see them in class, to p-setting with them, to merely just getting to ... already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  ’s similarly unfair how only 25 people get to take that class each year, how more ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , different types of companies come to MIT to recruit for corporate positions in ... Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007