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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... presidential campaign. I highly recommend this book to anyone- no matter where ... yourself rolling your eyes every once in awhile (I know I did), but even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  know where I’ll be in 30 years or where you’ll be, but ... Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... mad when I do different games where the game-problems have not been ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  good for that, though I've only eaten at Lobdell once or twice in the ... , where I think I could get more of a literature-based, "Dead Poets' Society ... more students to attend), and in that spirit, I must say that MIT is not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I've already heard" in my mind. But it wasn't until this semester that I realized ... senior in high school, I used to be the kid who pulled all-nighters, just

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  't that terrifying? If you can guess where you're most likely ... where I'd go right then and there.  Last semester, months ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  about where to eat in Pine Bluff, AR than I could have before. So there ... interest in learning about places where I live. It's how I found myself ... finally announced (so I can stop excitedly bouncing in my chair while

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  /www/oldmb/history.html">here</a> and rearranging the words in an attempt to avoid blatant plagiarism. I ... the amazing Bill '07. He's on the left in this picture. I'm next on the ... ://web.mit.edu/kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/crrazy_640x475.jpg" width="520" alt="I<3MITMB"></p> <

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  epic Journey. I spent two hours in front of that painting, jotting ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... school classmate who I haven't seen in a year). That night, she told me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  that I can continue to say that I’m in the place that I am because, many ... past Nisha, and to all of you, that I can, in fact, continue to say that. ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved, the more I learned about every aspect of theater. In high school, I was

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants! We understand what a daunting task it is for school counselors to meet all of the…
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  , including a random lab tech in a white coat wandering down just as I was ... right after Lobby 10, where you can find MIT Glass Lab. The ceiling is ... the poor upload quality, you probably can't read that on the doors in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class ... akin to “thou” and “wherefore art”, except I’m not even that fluent in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a ... by the Glasgow Coma Scale, in which I make no such promises. I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  in my last post was misinformed, because when I wrote it, I was relaxed ... without waking them up. It happens sometimes. I just threw in the last ... transitioning from high school to college. So, you know, I want to bask in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... -café, visit an exhibit in the Saga Museum, and enjoy a gourmet (by which i mean ... is not just really photogenic; it is even more striking in person." I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car and broke two bones in my wrist, and I would not even put that among the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  / athletics / arts fairs, where I found Mollie (decked out in full cheerleader ... I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas ... in the bleachers and watched the various events unfold. I snapped this

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... where I had to leave the arena towards the end. Now, I am not the type to ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006