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  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  it to my students, I would have any serious applicant read all of these ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... thought I’d be now, MIT would be the last place I would have said—if I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... rises, I can spot the hills in the distance. One day, I’ll snap out of my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... childish behavior. How clueless was I? [caption id="attachment_86641" align ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . I tried old math olympiad problems that would have otherwise remained ... hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play ... obvious, I love playing! Twice a week in Kresge Auditorium, however, I also

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  (Lunar New Year themed, in the McCormick Green Room!), but I felt like this ... -up[/caption]When I walked in, instead of the flowers and greenery I was expecting, I ... new "hidden spaces" around campus. I feel like no matter how many years

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to ... around and admired the flowers that are suddenly in bloom. I have done

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... cannot do everything I want to.[/annotation] And this teaches you how to ... 't walk quietly through a room in the early morning, think about how

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  that if we got snowed in then they would send a helicopter =) Off we went ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... interesting to me as a (then) prospective History double major. I came in ... thoroughly enjoyed it. I appreciate the well-aged humor in letters staff sent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in two years. mocha moves — for my 5th semester on mocha, i danced in only one section, which i co-choreographed. i don't know if i would have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  . I wanted to explore how my hair sometimes swallows me both in volume ... mine 'NYC critters,' and I still have it tucked away in my bookshelf at ... magazine, I was immediately struck by just how cool they all were. I’d always

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  , These are in-jokes which I would take too long for me to explain to you ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... Beethoven's 9th and Schubert's Winterreise, both of which I've sung in various

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... as a kid. After a while it became apparent that I was stronger in the classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  homeschooler who would be going into 11th grade if I were in school. The last few ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  things to do in three and a half days of little sleep. I would love to ... ever. In summary: because CPW. But here is more (from April 8, 2014): I ... 's around 30 pages), the task was quite impossible. After all, how do I pick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  I wrote lightly about scrapbooking in my coping with anxiety blog post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look into my life, and how I feel. My hopes and dreams, and my tremendous

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015