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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  much it. We can talk—or argue—about music for hours upon hours. We have ... call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  five wacky and wild weekends new hampshire? i hardly know her!

  

  , but then I had something planned for the next weekend I’d want to ... what I’ve been up to other than fluid mechanics psets and the like: Six Flags In April, ‘27s and ’28 were treated to [annotation note="$25 for a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  to imagine it. I'm so grateful for those few extra hours of normalcy ... few hours to send everyone home. The fact that we went an entire day ... hour after Denisse forwarded it to me. There's something funny about

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... about 12-15 hours a week during term and 40 a week during summer and IAP ... to be my biology advisor (if you have two majors, you get two advisors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  War Soldier for an hour watching a small Asian boy try in vain to ... Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  Dillard *** A 1 PM breakfast, one hour of productive work split across five sessions, frozen yogurt when I feel bad, staying inside to avoid the heat ... , craving to do something, having nothing satisfying. A dullness in the in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and senior year I got to be on campus, living life but not living it too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... be the most important of my life, yet they felt so uninspired on the whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.  

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

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim ... . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... it comes to money. If I have it, I spend it. Ask anybody who lives with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and ... time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  different gallery to see Michelangelo's David. Since both required two-hour ... passionately making a reservation so you don't have to play I Spy for two hours ... then waited for two hours in line and then you had to walk through three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  tear-inducingly beautiful data visualization that you are about to see ... . I present to you: immersion.media.mit.edu. The Collective Learning group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  other, miscellaneous things to worry about but combine them together, and ... about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful ... two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... students take on full-time, 40-hour work weeks during the summer - interning

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  .Going to office hours 9.Massachusetts Avenue 10.Course websites, they ... on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive urge to blog about my shoes. Understand, reader, that I had journeyed by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  with a mid morning Mountain Dew and a strict one hour limit and got down to business. Find below the best 23 Chuck Norris MIT appropriate jokes. I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006