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  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... value contrast is nonexistent. A couple more layers of paint could make it ... as leaving a painting like that is physically painful, there’s a knot

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  ; 1. “The sky is the limit” - Mom Since I was a very little Gabe, my ... . I’ve learned so much from Hardi and consider him a mentor, but nothing ... advice to you.” Me: “What is?” Hardi: “Stop giving a shit.” We split and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... itself.   One interesting point here is that a lot of the libraries ... Archives have a very specific purpose, which is to store and document

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  me write this blogpost. I love you and miss you a lot! My name is [annotation note="Yes, my name is spelled with two 'i's because that's how it ... of my fear of saying the wrong thing, I don’t talk much unless I know a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  myself at night, which is not really a great idea for a girl, all things considered. (I mean, Boston is generally a safe city. But it's still not a good ... Copley Place (which is connected to the Pru through a walkway) are slighty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  MIT. After all, college itself is a liminal zone of some sort, one ... Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  , and how we have built a community of our own here. Since Simmons is a ... was terrifying. Now I know the T is a great luxury that provides a ... show them how easily a campus can feel like a home. At the end of the jam

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  think of it as a wearable yearbook. The 2014 ring is much the same way ... , the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  live music. There’s SO much water! Austin is a green city. You can go ... . Austin is nicknamed the “live music capital of the world.” As a concert ... evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4 ... So, there are pretty much five schools at MIT. From most popular ... might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a ... satellites on the International Space Station! How cool is that?! Just a ... space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... . things like the one class i took on a whim, but it completely changed how i ... everything. MIT is a place full of "unknown unknowns" -- things you don't even

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... connect. Crafting a class is similar - we go into painstaking detail to ... implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games ... how to improve the litter removal process from highways. After a ton of ... because of my fractured and sprained foot, which is such a bummer because I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  said, I thought a lot of this information is/was/would have been useful ... disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a ... all that are feeling a bit nervous. Hopefully, I’ve addressed most

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  , make sure you have time to decompress. "You" time is never a waste of ... bit. I took on a little too much, and because of all my commitments, I ... story is that MIT's a challenging place, but you're never alone if you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic ... about burnout is that it's as much emotionally challenging as anything ... to work hard, at a high volume, over sustained periods of time, is part

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that ... Society, AWS, Zeta Beta Tau, and he is a Discover Biology FPOP Coordinator

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005