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• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  have teenagers at home, I realize this makes me an “authority/ parent ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... undergraduate working towards a BFA. Looking back, that’s a nice metaphor for what

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  the author in both versions. Didn’t even have to wait for four hours ... for you! Sure, students have less time for books in college, but we don ... author is Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club. When I read for fun, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we ... any Boston T station. Walk away in shame. 9. Figure out lighting for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree. ... auto parts store. It doesn't get much foot traffic anymore - what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  reason I’m in China is to intern at an architecture atelier at Beijing ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... after consulting most of the Chinese people I know in China, we decided to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  in the Center for International Studies, an interdisciplinary (like so ... minor in Applied International Studies. As for going abroad to China, MIT ... Relations and would like to study abroad in China. Can you tell me about MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  were left alone that morning without an x-dimension, like cakes out in ... me look like I was a little paunchy, but not like I was in the middle ... , and just generally act like an insane clown all night. I mean, look at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  student as a student who has enrolled in but has not completed an ... applied for MITES when you apply in the fall?" And Anonymous wrote, "Matt ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Things like rearranging the plates and cups in our cabinet in an artistic ... to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China ... When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese ... it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for ... china” and “my globalization experience in China.” However, I do want to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  today, you get that for free (with MIT certificates) as an MIT student ... offerings might surprise you. For example, while you're an MIT student, you ... as they are in certain directories, for free. If you need to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  couple months as an architecture student, summed up in a quote from Joel ... stop you dead in your tracks, blurring your vision for a while, until you ... wheel - feel in control and accountable for where you go. Even if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... around with it. A good exercise would be to paste in an image (ctrl+v to ... have after you click ok: Zoom in and out using ctrl+ - and ctrl

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  writing in such a way as to anticipate an author's direction and meaning ... : Charles Schulz began writing a comic strip called “Li’l Folks” in 1950 that ... ="93898" /] After appearing on an issue of Time Magazine in April, 1964, and a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  malfunction in our darn WINDSHIELD WIPERS. I was stuck in an auto-repair shop in ... an Asian obsession, correct me if I’m wrong). We then looked at ... Saturday, only to return on Sunday morning (haha, just in time for the Boston

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  commencement. For an interesting bit of trivia, the floor had a space ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the modifications that are being made are ones students have been advocating for for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  length of your essay. We do not have an auto-word-counter for the online ... with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing ... Beijing” post, because I realized that I hadn’t been to China in six years ... opportunities in China, especially in Jiangsu Province and surrounding areas since

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016