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• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same ... point, this glorious point, where I just didn’t care enough to keep going ... curry. I moved my roommate from MIT into the Maine house (!!!). I wrote

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  , I still wanted to be able to take a break and do some things for fun ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what 12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  pursuing a career as a filmmaker. It was a proud moment for him, and for me his mom, when he won second place in a local filmmaking competition for ... the 80’s? But I digress here. His film is actually about a topic I know

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  original research (for example, using a case study approach where you focus ... -students/ or from an academic press if a book. References beyond these five can ... . For research, I make the APA citation of the paper a header and add a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you ... Achilles heel. It’s not for want of trying. I bake a lot; last summer I kept ... children...” or something, but I think you can see where I’m going. So

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  ", which is where I went to figure out what to do. I called a phone number ... . Wonderful. I suppose it was only a matter of time, but now I'm running a fever ... isn't actually testing for H1N1, so there's no way to know if I have it

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  even when I needed to "back away slowly" for a few weeks. Before we return to the regularly scheduled soapbox, I call for a moment of ... from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  for music students who played one too many wrong notes during a ... “art is created inside this space,” but after three long years, I can ... the one I know the least about. As far as I can tell, it’s just one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but ... arrived, I intended to just ask for a simple "jewelry replacement" for the ... of which is in Central Square, just a quick walk from MIT. I went to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  person with some escaping her mouth.  I’ve been wanting to embroider for a ... to actualize many ideas I’ve had for a while now.    This was my ... . I think the combination of the two made it a lot easier for the tulle

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a ... the final project yet. I know I could've benefited from building a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  college admissions season can be a particularly anxious time for students. I ... Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  community. This reminded me of a conference I had recently attended, where ... know that it can be a lot of pressure for some students to have to “out ... continue to read as much as I can. I hang a drawing of Marsha P. Johnson at

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  put to very good use this quarantine, where i can run for hours in cold ... memory lane and I hope to keep making a playlist for every year that I’m at ... just how hype it is when i was warming up for a fencing meet that i was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  would smile and laugh a bit. I'd stare at the corner of the screen where I ... . Why was I embarrassed for losing a chess game with no stakes nor ... sacrifice you. It's a good trade, though." "Shit, I'm sorry, I can't save both

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  stepping away from what I love, it seems a bit counterintuitive, but I ... times to count. For the summer, I lived at tEp and it was a blast. In ... for the rest of my life. And I’m going to keep learning from them. I

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

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  we can have a safe relationship" "I want to become a teacher. We need ... would have made for a suffice response. And so I simply nod and smile ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... ’t utter that my hand can; there are feelings I can’t voice to an ear that a ... for a lifetime of rejection slips from apologetic publishing presses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead ... change I accepted, even grew to love, for a time. Even at a Freshman ... . It happened again roughly 4 minutes later as I transitioned from a run

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012