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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... a pumpkin crew yet, but this is my impression."]about two dozen ... more questions than it answered. “Two dozen pumpkins in just a few hours

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  MISTI and my buddy Chandler is doing a missions trip through Breaker of ... an ambassador for such a cause. Now I am at home in Tulsa, OK interning ... transit is usually an adventure (and sometimes a dangerous one so be careful

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  for my CMS.300 paper. In terms of how I found sources, I spent a lot of ... , but essentially this is a lab class that juniors in physics take that ... three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of ... ), and this mentality is what landed me in Taiwan instead of MIT three ... devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -de-lis. Manchego, a type of cheese, is named for a region in Spain called La Mancha ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  actually is, and we managed to make a functional one in two days! Cheers to ... ’s a cannoli?” in a fast-paced conversation is a lot harder than it seems ... helpfulness that is prevalent in the MIT community makes this transition so much

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... here. Two divided by four is one half, and that’s a little terrifying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  and realized just how much I had changed in a year. For so many months ... change in our lives—a haircut, a new tattoo, a broken bone—there rarely is ... lower it, because one of the worst symptoms of depression is in how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  , since our dollars would go a much longer way in some other countries vs ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being only two and a half hours long. But the opera is self-standing and ... it on loop while writing long math papers... It is effectively a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... is one fact i am absolutely certain of: i want to live in a world where ... is to surround yourself with people who are free in ways you’re not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... . At the time, this was considered a "radical experiment" that faced much opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  sqrt(n) steps from the origin. But if there is a pretty gem in one ... ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted ... are. There is actually a sizable group at MIT interested in video games ... those interested in pursuing it as a career. That is one of the reasons we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do i have unsolicited tips for you

  

  , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... interested in is a good way to really figure out what you want to do. Your

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... . One of the reasons I took a break last semester is that I felt like I ... . Sorry person-who-will-not-be-named-here, not everyone’s brain is a robotic

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  , hard rock/metal and classical music. Here is a sample playlist: "Quartet ... Zeppelin Hopefully you can see how the name of my show is relevant now! Not ... is the limit. My radio show is a highlight of my chaotic week

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  it's a testament of how powerful mailing list culture is here in mit ... 've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours ... emails, much like drinking from a firehose. a mailing list is like a group

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021