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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I ... (I was born in Atlanta). Lineart It was weird to do color first and lineart second, since that's the opposite of how I usually draw. Doing it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  even in the cool loner way, regardless of how I played it off. It took ... post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years ... things I’ve found helpful. Pack: -- a memento for your shelf or wall ... sockets appear in the oddest places. -- a Twin XL sheet set, a towel, and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... in my seat as I urge players to run faster, jump higher, and save the ... would be France. I remember waking up at 3 AM to watch them churn out an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... you have a smartphone? Understand that I didn't have a smartphone in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  the future in my major. But at least I would know that there was some ... , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... in just how many maker spaces (or spaces for making) it houses! To try ... as they discover and interact with more spaces. Eventually, I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... blinding goal, a safety net for things that I wasn’t satisfied with in high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the ... blog is actually smarter than I am. Do you know why? One time in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool ... how exactly I got my meals. I knew I was eating roughly lunch and dinner and other meals every day, but I didn’t know how much of what I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  brothers, and I would not place one over the other. --- So how do I feel ... . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  everything else I'm already doing, I don't know how it's going to fit in. It ... window wistfully, thinking of how much I'd miss my mother in the coming ... and Society in America (which I really love) - and thinking about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... any effort whatsoever (yes, i did go fratting in pajamas more than once ... frat gave us fried Oreos, which slapped. oh frats, how i miss you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  . So let me ask you, how are you? How are you really? Because I ... finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want ... sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14.21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  , but I'm not sure how much is too much. Would submitting the first three chapters be over-doing it? Also, can I send it in on CD, or would you rather ... wondering if it would be acceptable to send in a DVD of a performance?" I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  was and still am afraid that if these kids confide in me, I won't know ... -up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it should occur, to which I said that I would that I would simply listen, be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... feeling dreadful that I would have to wait another 2 months, and treated it ... years, the sleepless nights. Seek joy in your other opportunities, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023