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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  -Center. There's a bunch of stuff I want to check out in the 5:00PM - 8:00PM slot ... many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both ... . There were 8 admitted students in the central Texas area, plus an admitted student from Houston who was visiting his brother in Austin who I happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  signed up for an audition slot for Cabaret. In the four weeks of IAP ... Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... different. In digital fabrication, you learn about 3D printing and laser

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I ... matters worse, they invited other people in my place and accommodated to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby here. The name plate on our door has four slots, taken up by AWESOME

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... with friends or with activities I enjoy. In spring of 2013, the questions ... . At this point, I've probably gone far too far in the opposite

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  finals in the past two days (6.0001, 20.110, and 5.13) and the looming ... fascinating externships, or participate in an assortment of competitions. Last ... yourself in some way. And while this is surely an admirable outlook on life

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  nice," you say. "okay," they say. "it looks like the next in-person slot ... goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins ... year. But while Allan has consistently filled up every slot of every week

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now ... engineering. FIRST works something like this: every year, in January, a star ... the 37,000+ students on 3,000+ teams in 12 countries worldwide. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run ... -optimizing” (FOMO) in a conversation with Scott Alessandro, the Director of Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  time slot in the first place?! Didn't they realize what they were about ... every three seconds and ended up with more dead air than anything else in ... ruin the reputation of the entire radio station all in one go. Great. Now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... designing the camera in between study sessions using Google SketchUp, and ... out of cherry and brass, with my homemade, faux leather bellows in the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  things going on. Here are a few that caught my eye in the CPW schedule ... more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT students. Awesome music at ZBT ... Fair Saturday at 1pm, then take a 30-minute slot on the air later that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  basis (but which never actually happens in reality). Top 40s producers ... every single Taylor Swift song ever produced (SERIOUSLY. No one lives in a ... them perform live three times in three different cities in the span of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far enough to go to the good food places in NY :("]good food over Winter break

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  at several schools in January and February. The process was [annotation ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020