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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... ,[/annotation]and, for this year, my goal is simply to write as many sestinas as I can ... our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  /the grocery store/class in the cold. So basically every day I've been ... is what I mean: Edit: Ruth pointed this out in her comment below- it ... , if you live anywhere in the area of this crazy "winter" (and I use that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  then you can say all this. But to be honest, I've finished that book now ... . When I was in high school, our English teacher wanted us to write essays ... certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  roller coaster. (Where by "she threw it off a roller coaster" I mean "it ... One week ago, everyone's parents were here on campus, and I mean everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... like after graduation.  In retrospect, I should have been more proactive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... majoring in anthropology and computer science (spicy combination, I know! ask

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  I’m not 21, and the people I polled varied in how much they like the ... . High levels of sodium in your blood can be deadly. Other notes: This is ... media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was ... ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  :("]few[/annotation] glaciers left in the park. All the blog posts I read ... in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do ... wanted to just stop and go back down at some points. Plus, I had to put in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... m. After moving on campus recently and seeing people in 3D, I'm hoping ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  walking distance of MIT. Driving and parking in Boston can be super ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to detect some of this excitement in my entry. In seventh grade I learned from ... that I appreciated during finals week: For 10.213: Chemical Engineering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before ... older, I still loved math, and so did my dad. He works in construction

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to be a cat in the winter time. Today I wrested the last fateful drop out ... before turning them in for good. If I don't sound terribly grateful to the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for ... got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a ... I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and ... . In the time that has elapsed since then, I have spoken with numerous ... . But I’m writing this primarily because I believe that that can change

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... viewing pleasure.  Enjoy! Nine-fold Pinwheel Designer: I forgot (and can’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... of snow. Even better, right outside of the dorm where Siyi and I live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025