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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  sister, who is not really a baby. If you want to come away from this with a ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  in their bodies is excited about new ways of being creative wants a ... I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... appreciate a lot. the instructor is a choreographer, dance filmmaker, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech ... MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via ... but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no ... materials scientist who graduated in the early '70s and she told me about her awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... ; - - - - - - - - - -   In the Maseeh floor 2 dorm room, there is a desk. And a lamp. And ... as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  -ish of field work), had a really good friend who graduated in Course 12 ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and talk about geology! We don't have infinite space as this is a tough

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  unlike any other school in the world. As a freshman, you can work in the ... come to my 9:30 AM biochemistry class. So, after a breakfast in Burton ... turns to the other and says, 'Wow, is it me or is it hot in hereпњљ' The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... the same reasons TNC did in his post: because it's a shocking reminder

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  ’t be the only thing—seeing a movie in a theater is more immersive, and I ... Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  get a UROP in EAPS - generally all you need to do is find a professor ... and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... well. EAPS as a department is really informal - I’m on a first-name basis

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in room 26-100 This is the same room in which I attended 8.01: Classical ... Trial team. I bought some mochi. Yum. My friend Evan '07 (who was in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and a slow time; it is a time of midnight doomerism and late afternoon

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few ... straightforward enough, but it takes a lot of time! It is completely normal for ... historical context. Just a few cycles ago, in 2007, around 3300 students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room ... . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and ... specific characteristics. High school quizbowl in Canada is focused on our

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  Sam, who said, "There is an IKEA somewhere in Boston. It just recently ... anything to do with what the water is actually surrounded by. A single bubble is iridescent, right? You can see streaks of all different colors in it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... argument about what the proper name is for a soft drink. Most people said ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  around to see if anybody is interested in going for a walk. Catherine M ... , but that its loss is hardly a disaster. down. In the past month, there ... rounds, you would be "out." Here is a blurry photo from back in 2018, all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... with a different counselor, until someone put me in physics C. And then I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020