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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  how we do it in our specific professional context.']admitted students to ... —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to ... recommendation form. It is also okay -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... to talk about how to make blog posts, the few guidelines we have about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I ... ceremony (and dinner!) to begin. Be back in ~1 hour. Day 1, 9 PM Ok, so ... rather tricky. Try to see how many of these you can answer (without

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is ... older sister to me, reflecting on how much we've seen each other grow ... Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  I'm just excited to get my very own piece of MIT history in April ... mention those. So I'd just like to get my actual opinion of the ring out ... . =) (The girl sitting in front of me during the Premiere happened to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... dining hall. I look forward to these dinners each week – the people in my ... being drawn back to the ice. Isabella and I are both amazed by how our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  leave. So this is where things start to get strange. Well, we're now at ... hadn't been able to deny such a request all night, so we broke out in a ... The MIT Marching Band, completely arbitrarily, decided to go out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in ... known as "Technology" or simply "Tech." And Tech students knew how to have

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

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  , to chat about our mutual interest in astronomy outreach and how to ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  'm in no rush to see Pirates 3. And finally, if all else fails: Procrastination Technique #5: SLEEP I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep more ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  comparison, because it was kind of hard to get even those eight wins in ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... ask you, kind readers: How do you like to procrastinate?

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing ... want to. In the Friday's 3.091 lecture, Professor Sadoway delivered a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... up, Sam McGee, another judge, who hopes to get students more involved ... mattress parts (springs, foam, and polyester liners) to get people to think

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... friends and I went to Spain! And immediately upon landing in Spain, I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  excited to see how it impacts the environment. i can go on and on about ... , you get the point: my home base this summer is a remote place out in the ... both in my life. i dont need to… pick? i feel like that’s a question that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  to be terrible but I saw We Bought A Zoo so how much lower can Matt ... construction: "I didn't get it." (To be fair, he started watching after we had ... 's an original script. I like that it gets you to think about what

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  honestly so very cool when I get to use it in contexts that are actually ... pushed me toward 21E in the first place and to taking media studies more ... notes doc in my phone to write them down in case they came to me. (I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023