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• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of ... captured the essence of what motivated me, what I said above, what I couldn

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  the maze of corridors and first hearing about "the Infinite." And, of course, I still remember the chirping crosswalk in front of 77 Mass Ave. Fast forward to 2007. I am standing underneath the shadow of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... the ease of wellness when the fall term comes around, but I know I ... to visit me, let me know. Food I don’t love the activity of cooking

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I ... yesterday afternoon, as I thumbed a hole in the last of my familiar, paint ... nothing during my sophomore year. The bottom drawer of my desk is filled

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away ... hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... last semester when i felt this sense of clarity regarding the fact that ... coolness of the UROP that i had done that year, which i hadn't thought about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  time on the positive side of the emotional spectrum. She recently created ... could! Yayy. (2) I know many of you are at the point in your school year where the amount of work seems unending and the end of the semester always

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  've spent the past several weeks with many of my colleagues, working long days ... ) - Logarhythms (a cappella, all-male) These are, of course, just a sampling of the ... American Students) Culture Show, Fri 7pm in Kresge Auditorium - Battle of the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  province being published in the local newspapers. There is no other way of ... interview-related questions. "One of the requirements of MIT is that I should ... about this. In terms of your self-reported coursework, put swahili in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  really like a lot of the poems that came out of these. It was interesting ... when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of ... of the fallen trees – their ancient, winding roots torn from the earth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... iterating on the design and re-making some of the parts"]10[/annotation] mold halves to CAD, CAM, and CNC. We split the work between the five of us

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two ... to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion ... had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  favorite parts of the year is our retreat in the woods with other East Coast ... , the solo performance I'm most proud of was spinning to "The Rockrose and ... ://youtu.be/zIubvTVsBQo?si=6lNNuGQT7zmHyAzQ Being a part of the fire spinning community has been

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... layer of skin dissolves, exposing the nerve endings, so whenever the sore ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... seem too long for the rest of his body. He folds and unfolds his arms

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  defined by Wikipedia: "the act of engaging in activities (such as ... entry of computer systems. Hacking is no less than the building of the ... . The second-place-winning project of HackMIT 2013, in the making. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... fans by the way), and the panther was lost in the process of moving in. MIT is having an open house of its own this weekend, which will be the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011