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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  can’t emphasize that enough!! Another comment I’d like to make is about ... feel like Things Fall Apart really reflects that. As much as you can see ... or finish, I hope you’ll find time to read this summer! It can be on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help ... at MIT, you can also browse the subject listings or departmental course listings. For a visual tour-de-SHASS, you can also stare at this gorgeous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  glass on can be hollow, and have mouthpieces on the end. The instructors ... you should be able to see what I’m talking about. (If you can't see it ... than my first class, I can definitely say that try #2 was a success

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... , refined loquacity is your style of writing, you can save the fancy words for ... essays? The trick is that there isn't a trick to it. I can tell you what

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... Vincent. These are the small subtleties that no one but a black person can ... I will do everything I can to fight for equality for my race. So next

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  (Hopefully I can write a blog about it sometime soon). Either way, in joining ... campus I can definitely do a blog post on that too! When it comes to just ... is something you want some more of I can definitely try to add it, and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... quality, and are working on other things I can’t speak about publicly right ... listen, and I actually kind of enjoyed it! I can't really describe how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  outside of classes and want to make sure I can give my 100% to all of them ... for this long, so I hope I can make it four more months. I feel like I ... deserves its own blog post. But for now (~shameless plug~) you can follow my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  friend who's at the gym waiting for me--well, I can't just not show up, can ... My mother ...keeps texting me emojis. I can't wait to see her

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  often very good quality. I think there are a lot of people who can do very ... they are. You can say this or that school is better in this or that department or this or that way, but you can never say this person is better or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  design process and usability, not coding. Designing mobile apps can be ... ancient magic and modern stage illusion can inform cutting edge technology ... observations for 21W.789 due next week, and I can already feel the pressure

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... beauty you can mope dreamily at, but would rather not step into, because

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  without water. They can go without air for 45 minutes or submerged underwater for half an hour. Cockroaches can even live for a week without their ... dust, can run almost as fast as its parents. Cockroaches date back to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  is often, I can escape into my room or a quiet place and when I don’t want to be alone, which is also often, I can always find somebody else ... ,” “not lactation or iocane powder,” “or Europeans who think you can buy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  environment in which my actors can make discoveries on their own. Finding new ... the best they can be. That was my favorite part. But even after all this ... you care so much and work so hard to make a piece the best that it can

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  be fair, the dining halls are all-you-can-eat (and ... efficient system. I still visit the dining halls frequently - you can buy ... Stata Center. For $3.55 I can get an impressively large square of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  energy from it, because a system that can effectively suck energy from surroundings can be called somewhat alive (aka life emergence question). Neat ... knowing about the magnetic field as these bodies were forming can tell us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  is that you can answer questions for subjects you're more comfortable ... (arguably more important). Now that I'm awake I can hit snooze for an hour. 9:00am ... , I can't have that now, better get dressed and cycle down to Sainsbury

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Road. There are campfires in driveways, where you can stand by strangers ... brothers. The acronym 'scuba' stood for "little can of air I strap on my back ... middle of his brother's story, Jacques hooks him up to the little can of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to ... MIT has to offer, things can and do go wrong.  It’s a law that holds ... , which states that "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013