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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  I know for show tunes is, fittingly, told in a show tune. Yes, I know ... scene lives in my brain rent free. I became so horribly obsessed ... note='this is me speaking to myself lmfao']let’s calm down a little bit

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 ... observing what you find yourself interested in is a good way to really figure

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman's a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• 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
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  are [annotation note="34, in fact"]a ton[/annotation] of beautiful ... hour there...The boat leaves from Long Wharf, which is a ~10 minute walk ... is only a bit of an overstatement. The ferry ride is indeed beautiful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  've had a conversation with you child about just how much you can afford to ... paperwork in a timely manner. Once your child is admitted, the decision ... the parents in the crowd. So if you are a student looking for info about

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006