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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... 's friend. He asked me what we did in Charlottesville, and I explained that we ... ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , but I like to consider myself a IllGeoTexMaryGeorgian (In order of my ... were wondering, I have no clue what I want to study yet. Possibly a ... filled with pipes (is that how it goes?). So, I studied architecture in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  specify what you contributed to). We’ve chatted a couple times with Lauren ... some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... what you actually do in high school, and we agree that this distinction

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... .002 (What was I trying to do, taking 39 CS units of virtual class?) and added ... ’m pretty sure I can breeze through this one” *Frantically googles ‘What is an

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  categories of what I was putting in each box was a lifesaver. It helped me ... year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... . Then that following fall I lived with four people including myself in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  something I noticed a couple months ago – this: What's that, you ask? The top is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  application process or should I just mention it in one of the essays?" A1. There ... . What I wanted to know was that a person with almost 10 As (9As and a B on ... , should I write about these in the extracurricular section or the Additional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... shadows of a face. In stats I concentrated on the hatching of clouds instead ... ,[/annotation] but one week before a friend’s birthday, I decided it was time to pick

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  quantify things a little bit, I measured the first six ingredients(it’s in ... [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other ... a combination of random beans and lentils.  I’ve had the recipe I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  sort of behavior was typical. Now, I'm a little sheltered in this regard, because before college, I had no idea what was going on around me in terms of dating and relationships, nor did I care. If you'd asked me what a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... that language, and I have included a best-efforts transliteration and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... like a French ballade Constantly written, never finished.   I am from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  Services, just checked in via a comment and I thought it would be best to ... frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us; your decision should arrive any day. I know that your frustration is

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  something I did a lot in my internship when we were first brainstorming what ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake ... ) website. In regards to Harry Potter, I secretly still want to be a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said ... , I’m a freshman from Binghamton in upstate New York, interested in ... (physics). I live in a dorm called Senior House, where I’m co-organizing CPW

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine ... in Germany for a summer, I could read and understand the language. But ... that they actually close without a gap in privacy. I love how the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend ... . So I did a lot of traveling and therefore didn't make much money. So no ... Germany Czech Republic Romania Italy Spain Denmark UK France China The list

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... the deal: I'm having a pretty boring semester academically. After ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  Professor Maier, teaching is not a one-way street. I believe she thinks that ... , she simply probes deeper in her questions and gets us to think like a historian should, even on-the-spot if necessary. Professor Maier is a master

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it ... mutually exclusive. I have a small cousin back in Colorado that has a hard

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017