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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... following are true", she said. "You want to be a part of this once in a lifetime opportunity to originate a role for the stage. You have never been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... application? Is it okay if I send this as a reply to question 14?" Yes, #14 would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  was a semi-sullen teenager, who was maybe not exactly thrilled to be on a trip to Boston. I had about thirty seconds of, wow, you can't even ... glass by using a lamp to melt it) who made glass eyes, lab equipment, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few ... actually a very good case for an entry with the title "How to do everything

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  students) high school was a relatively straight path. I knew I was going to ... look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more ... chance to reach my fullest potential. To paraphrase a favorite song, it had

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

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  emails to various people and attempting to attend a memorial service held ... this was not a surprise to me). Scale up to a finished product http ... to all get an understanding of the situation at hand. Once we had a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... more ways to jump over, onto, and off various objects! I'm taking 18.02A ... master of div, grad, AND curl!!!...which is to say, I'm having a real good

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to ... around them and buzz internally like a fly, wondering whether to do ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a ... experience." Essentially, the career fair was a slight bust due to my lack of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not ... now i’ve decided to take this less seriously and i was going to do a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the ... early dinner. A beautiful end to a snowy day. Although it's back ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum. Certain events, however, tend to stick out ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a ... biology notes in a sleepthirsty stupor and was preparing to dive into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  go for MIT interview?" Eric responded that it would be a good idea to ... here. Anyone with a 720 has the potential to do just as well at MIT as ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... Thanksgiving vacation last fall, I pulled three consecutive all-nighters due to a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in ... he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear ... Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of ... a request that she give up the ring to the Rhinemaidens or the gods ... unfurling petals give a magnificent backdrop to the dazzling chandelier

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... .0. He would be a sure thing to land a lucrative job in business or science ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025