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• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  mattered. Friday, December 13, Early Action decision day, was to be “the day ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... self to stop worrying. Nor should I. Worry was inspiration. It’s why I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang out with The Angela Monster), but you also just might get the chance to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  my favorite things together." I also didn't have the confidence to ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... hold your phone up to some of the paintings, they'll come alive with AR

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... completely. There’s enough space to leave me trying to figure out the things ... behind? And so I begin to list things out: I’m taking all the knowledge and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are ... 't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  precious time we spend after classes together twice a week to sing, setting ... morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way ... seems like I haven't had the time this semester to sit and think about the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw ... possible and set aside time during our weekend to have fun CPW events like ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  and put it all together (and I got to spend SO MUCH TIME experimenting ... mind also find themselves wandering over to writing. Writing is my minor ... the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  throwing together 7 all-MIT bands to answer the question that's been plaguing ... food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  time to call and do art together as we caught up. I worked on my ... introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  together in the wake of that experience - cliques ceased to exist, people ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  busy people still make the time to have unabashedly geeky fun together. ... . Pie Kits from Clover To celebrate all the hard work done by the whole ... kit from Clover Food Lab to make cranberry pies. [carousel image1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration ... Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... person... Together, we added more and more gruesome details

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... floor above mine, one often subjected to the graceful fingers of Random ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  walked back to New House (our dorm!) together. There, I met with the new ... , and get to know each other. The VP and I have been working together for ... with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  figure out how to put everything together myself, after having relied on ... around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... concert, and four days isn’t enough notice to book another company so we

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  people’s faces and eat snacks together at lab meetings and I want to be ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  [/annotation] captains meet to talk about our plan for fall. We discussed staying together ... lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that"]A[/annotation] few days ago, my Google Calendar returned to its pre-exile state, aka

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020