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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  skills were soaring. I even started translating things myself. My high ... , and of course that ended up majorly backfiring by the end. I'm glad that ... to do (aka study for the 5.111 ASE, which I ended up failing anyway

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  By Chris Merrill '12 All throughout today, the day after CPW, I kept ... -purchased lanyard. Now, when I should be writing a persuasive essay for my AP English ... many more exactly like it at the Coop, and I bet they’re a common sight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . 12 units of 21G.704 (Spanish IV): I took Spanish for four years in high ... and ended up with a tiered list of classes I was enjoying. I was still ... that I don't burn out and end up doing worse than I would have if I had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... nominations than I have years of life. It’s probably very difficult to include

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  impromptu hanging out that didn’t end up on my calendar. I’m so bad at doing ... joining a fraternity at MIT. In the fall of my freshman year, I ended up not ... frat offered me a bid, but I ended up turning it down for reasons that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  choice for yourself. This isn't the end of the road, and I hope you'll feel ... also for the amazing persons you are. Like a wise man once said, for us ... in your life. In the end, wherever you ended up for college, you were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  scratching post. The 18-year-old from New York's Long Island is starting ... , administrators say. The felines add a warm touch to a high-pressure environment of ... seeking advice on implementing pet programs. "I never thought I'd be able

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board ... . It was then that I decided I wanted to do theater in high school. So after four years of high school theater I was pleased to find that MIT had

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  is highly balkanized, in the sense that I have all sorts of these 2 ... highly arbitrary: it includes all classes and activities that I'm formally ... I am, by nature, a fairly disorganized person. This sometimes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  "helpful handouts." Although I've since forgotten what most of the papers ... Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's a shame that I actually misplaced ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  I'm turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen ... the impending end of the semester, though, that demands one gently ... —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  certain events that I ended up not spending more than ten minutes at. Food ... afterwards, and man, am I ever tired of giving tours. I must have given four or ... Anime Karaoke. It ended late, so I went directly to the Activities Midway

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  songs, and ended up being assigned the lower harmony part. At the time, I ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  . When I was in high school, my peers only took Spanish to satisfy the ... I've really really loved my schedule this year so I thought I'd do a quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  as we passed it around. They say it sounds better in French - but I didn't understand a word of it. I guess it sounded pretty? Another ... wonderful. Yesterday she made chili, and tonight, we had Jambalaya! I'm going

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  write about a topic that we should know a lot about: our classes. I ... than what I’ve taken before because I don’t have any lab based classes this semester. I’m quite happy about that fact, because I enjoy the more

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high ... . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took ... , and watching that change unfold was lovely. By the end, I loved him and ... at the end -- but boy, I am digging this so much. I'm not finished

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020