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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this ... dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend ... -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... : "At MIT, we seek to develop in each member of our community the ability ... A few months ago the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  talking about the general excitement of being back at school. It was so nice ... . But seeing the way that the MIT DPhiE chapter is at the forefront of ... endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion ... lot of time on. Start by looking at what you’ve spent the most time on

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Bombers move off the floor in their four years at MIT, and all of them ... classes ranging from 1969 to 2018 were at the 50th anniversary of our annual ... good portion of REX hanging out with the Bombers at their events, however

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  me at least start answering a lot of my questions about life and impact ... guided by a definition given at the beginning of the chapter, which I found ... while she saw it as an exchange where she offered moments of connection

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... if you have any real problems but at least your summer will be in order

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From ... actually went. Me: “A good rule of thumb [in choosing jobs that will not ... mechanical, less human than taste—but of course this often happens in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  school night at 3:00 am the following day? I planned most of the trip in ... . We arrived at Newport at ~8:30am, so we had hours and hours of spare ... for most of the time. […] At about 85% coverage I took a glance and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  past week that showed me true meaning of "IHTFP": At some point around 5 ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was ... .086 which (though I didn’t know it at the time) is possibly one of the WORST

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information ... to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  , explaining how at first I wasn't all too fond of the internship, but once I got ... 'd offer some hints if I got stuck. I babbled on for a couple of seconds ... spent the rest of the time talking about his time at Microsoft, as well as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... different culture around sprinklers. At least most of us do -- the fenced

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  use telescopes and cameras for low-light photography. at the end of the ... enticing variety of classes and limited time you have at MIT, again and again ... [/annotation] used to have Friday movie nights at the beginning of last fall but it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  amount of time at the pool table in Simmons, the pool table in Random, as ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  !") Speaking of which, during Floor Rush at Burton Conner, I visited every single ... everyone to meet us at Anna's. Problem solved.) I love the location of our ... to confirm my original assignment at Burton-Conner. The adjustment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  is nothing at all. "If you have the slightest recollection of what ... : there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up to ... polynomial function of a real variable, and the degree of  is , then  is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019