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• 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…

  

  gave me a quizzical look when I came home for Christmas break freshman ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved ... directing a musical with the help of a mentor. The next fall, I co

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  from Telephone where she walks into a Tarantino film and poisons the ... camera that more-than-kind-of looks like a droid from The Clone Wars, of ... instant Polaroids just like Grandma used to do for her scrapbook. I still

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  finishing this week’s psets, I took a mental break from school and scribbled ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... rigorous high school math educations!!” Which began to degrade into “… I can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  an overzealous freshman, so I pitched a spread idea for Issue 7 last ... ideas for the sake of upholding those ideals. I reached out to a friend ... our theme for Issue 8, I spent a week unsuccessfully trying to come up

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... for over 50% of student loan defaults. If I may draw a very deliberate ... intended to "tap into the demand for an elite American education from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to ... concrete roadmap for the next four years -- I basically re-made my class plan at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  've waited 30 minutes for a quesadilla that they ended up putting chicken in (I ... New Vassar used to be a parking garage, and I can't unsee it. The vibe ... it, I do want these "superficial" things for comfort and vibe

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... Hello from the other side! Like the wizened, immortal Jess Kim, I am

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  filter before I left for California and just drank half a cup of moldy ... myself for saying this when I have a kid later on, and have to make all ... him into a well.* (Why yes! I did watch 300 over Thanksgiving. My

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  confident I would nail it tomorrow. Then I worked for a bit on my 6 ... in the morning. I sent her a link to our slide for tomorrow ... recall it. Fifteen years from now, when I’m married and have kids and am

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  admissions a site I just made for admissions, when I should be working on my ... for about a year. But I’m passionate about all my activities, and if you ... where I lived until 8 then my family moved to sunny southern California

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that ... example, and the murals that exist range from anywhere between a month and ... administration seems in their decision to oust murals. I did, however, get a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  -- I can go into his office and plop down on a chair and whine about my ... , seeing your friends for the first time after the summer, and helping a ... in, but we went over and hung out for a while. My friend Mark made a t

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... miraculous, if you stop to think about it for a second. Like I said, I had a ... dumb question but I have looked for the emails of the bloggers a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  ? On on side I can get a PC with tons of programs, downloads, familiarity, and 'cheap' prices. On the other side, I can get a Mac with it's super ... , Marilee was def using a Macbook for her info session so I know that Macs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer ... lottery will run June 1-17. As a historical note, I helped to secure the funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  , turned into a prop for the glory of the other half.” “I didn’t have dreams ... going to become a soldier and there was nothing I wanted to fight for ... favorite. The first issue can be read for free. Once upon a time, each of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  students and I got to get a feel for what kinds of work chemists are expected ... enough. I realized that it was, in fact, a Thursday afternoon and time for ... "lynn." I didn't even really consider putting "el en ex" as a choice

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

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... eye a million times before for allergies or from overuse (ahem... maybe ... I study a bit more for physics. Because I didn't feel comfortable

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009