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• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  going to affect me at all when I apply? Also, I've taken a lot of ... that they do give you a basic knowledge to build off of at MIT. People ... conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  while isolated at home, but I feel guilty not taking advantage of the ... communications. I offered the idea to make our own MIT version of Chilled ... [/button_link] The idea of “home” has, unsurprisingly, been at the front of my mind

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... great time to bond with teammates (and improve our rowing of course). It

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  nothing at all.  During my senior year of high school, my dad told me this ... praise you and give you an inflated impression of who you actually are. At ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... put at the top of the fire don't really show up - you can see them a ... small vase -- you can see how much glass is left at the bottom of it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  at East Campus’ Fred Fest, or in the case of the small concert held in ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a ... tournament, the results of which will be released at an event next week. There ... beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

          i've been spending a lot of time ... for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time ... trying to stay caught up: bad news (congress voted to kill a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  at the tip, making it wider than the tip of the brush. I also struggled ... daily journal to varying degrees of success. I tried to keep a diary when ... complicated areas of life and leaves it at that without trying to draw a line

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of the ways that I’ve changed at MIT. So, for most of freshman year, I ... indecisiveness about my major at the end of freshman year. It was basically that I ... of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  have these traits as outgoing people. There are many types of people at ... schools and one of the factors I'm considering is the social scenes at the ... groups at many places on the web, including the Office of the Arts website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  cry, made me stare at the ceiling at 3am and question my sense of self ... 's conclusion, where at the end of the day all those cliches are, in Bo's words ... movie" and it didn't feel like that at all. The movie of my life sucks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  amount of sleep before I'd have to wake up super early. Of course, at 5 in ... building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing cold outside. None of the firefighters seemed very happy to be up at this

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that ... dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the

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

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

  

  backseat of a lesser sized yellow overpriced mini beast until I arrived at ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  manipulate and assemble nanowires at the National Institute of Standards and ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006