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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  blissful weeks i had to myself once classes ended and finals began. with zero ... soon as it ended, i rushed back to my dorm to binge-watch [annotation ... . on Sunday, i acquired even more clothes at my friend's [annotation note="man

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maine. Soon after, we'll hit California ... should I expect? Also, the local ECs will introduce themselves. They

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  high way. But this was the end of my day and not the beginning. I was ... up to it but I ended up going anyhow and we kicked ass. Everybody ... through high school without sports, I was on tennis, badminton, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  I'm completely hosed with post-CPW communications right now, and will be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... -er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  second floor, near the M-Z section of "Current Periodicals" so I can treat ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks, though, are less jam-packed. I just go about my routine - running, reading

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to participate in MISTI. When senior year rolled around, I decided that a 5-month ... -rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  Sometimes I feel like an alien because [annotation note="a fact that ... there's SO MUCH MEDIA OUT THERE and I don't mind sitting/driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  . Yes, that is my Chrome beanie. I, alas, cannot draw.  Despite living in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  broth was sooo good i highly recommend getting that one and then ... the free ice cream at the end was also SO GOOD man it was peak vanilla ... MIT is not exactly known for our dining. Well, even if it was, I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  for it is too damn high. I have gotten slightly better at guitar in the ... may not know that I was REALLY into quiz bowl in high school. Honestly, the extent to which I was into quiz bowl in high school merits its own

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  rocky, but I could always rely on it to be there for me. After long hours of fencing practice, I would stumble out of the Z-Center with a ... bite of a spicy Italian sub, I would do anything - including trudging

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  guest-blog about it, and I figured, hey, science is awesome, MIT is ... again—holidays, finals, and high school science competitions! *thumbs up ... start my own project. I remember how cool I felt when I first told my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  tell you about my semester before I go. Briefly: 18.821 ended up being ... was fun! Highly recommended. Just wish I'd actually worn a bowtie ... My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... sandwiches and phalanx-like carrot sticks at exactly 11:55 AM. Never did I ... complaint like, “I was five standard deviations below the mean on the last

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am ... * because i feel pretty much the same way... 0.o ... I keep reading about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to ... I had previously learned in high school for Science Olympiad, and ... As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  and in turn received much spam (I thought my high school had an email ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  myself to high school Shorna. It’s a very strange relationship I have with ... proportion of my end-of-year identity crisis has been prompted by my classes. I ... Shorna sets in. In high school, people were scared of me. I’ll sometimes

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... years in high school -- honors chem, ap chem, and organic chem. and i had ... as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019