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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  where in centuries past, male patrons of the opera could stand and watch ... Shiozawa. Afterward, we went out for drinks with Germain. I can’t believe I got to chat casually with a Paris opera star. I'm in the same picture

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a Friday night. I was one of two people in the audience. In my defense, I saw it so I could tell my 7-year old sister about it. Also in my defense

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  tomorrow! I promise! You can hold me to that. It would tear my soul in twain ... and I fell over in shock. The ninja police did nothing to rescue me ... little paint in my hair, but that's okay, I'll just match Levi from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  that's been fine with me—this is my first academic year where I ... before, so I wasn't sure what kind of paint I should use. There were cans ... in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  ... that's cheerleadery, isn't it? Jess '08 Well-- I'm in Italy studying ... - Debt Capital Markets (DCM) Where? NYC Details: I get to work on a ... summer? Astrophysics UROP Where? The Kavli Institute for Space Research in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... said, here are some tips I'd recommend... In my circle of friends, as ... alum that I don't regularly keep in touch with, by default I always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  etc where you can meet people. People here don't bite, and I think it ... , but ironically I sing too, you can find my proficiencies in the homepage ... example, can you engage in research or independent studies?" Hey Rachel, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  learning I think navigating mentorship in ML can be a bit challenging ... Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... interested in my physics classes, this can be enough. I'll then be free to take ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... there was the poem by Lord Byron, Don Huan: Canto 1 written in 1818 where

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  after she told me this. In many ways, I can see how similar my mom and I ... 've reached a point where sometimes things are just so fucked up I can't help ... whatever they want in front of me. There are times where I tip too far over

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... became lifeless and unreal puppets living in a world where I was looking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  Lausanne, Switzerland, where I've been living for the past 10 days. I'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in middle school, and every year in elementary school. You'd think I'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which ... now at the point in the year where we need to put in lots and lots of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ...   I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  , and even if I were, I doubt I'd want to take a dip in the Charles ... Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wall painting! Whenever I can, I try to visit my sister in suburban ... D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018