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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last ... improvement, and because of this they’re one of the communities at mit that i ... about my music knowledge that all happened at the end of high school

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and on stage here at MIT. This is an important goal as many of the ... and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... small falls on the [annotation note="more of a creek at this point ... . Most of my willpower is focused on moving myself forwards, one step at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Skloot I want to read at least 12 books by the end of the summer ... about it right now, I’d at least say that it’s a kind of spread ... . It’s very relevant, to me at least, because she touches on a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  of the faculty and students at MIT, and you can be a part of it! ... Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7 ... pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  , at the insistence of one of Charles Schulz's friends. The friend sent ... at the Peanuts table. There are countless stories of people reading the ... is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  both, even though they’re capped at 15 [annotation note="the number of ... true. Admissions looks at a lot of different factors. You don’t need to ... most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  stopping at a drugstore and buying a map of Boston. After a quick map viewing ... exciting tourist attraction of the day. Quick, just by looking at the picture ... at the top of the hill. Ok, time to listen to the blog comment and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  students: voc techs will often fix your cars at the cost of the parts, saving ... microcosm of life at MIT. Rather than being bored or struggling with a dearth ... When I give information sessions (including one today, at 2PM), I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  . But after moving into my fraternity house at the beginning of this ... smoots. At MIT campus Approaching Lobby 7 In front of Lobby 7 ... take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  nearly forgot, the little company who's in charge of this thing, CERN? Yea,at ... . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  haven't perfected the art of being in multiple places at once. (Yet ... was hanging out with a bunch of mutual friends at Theta Xi, yet another ... week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  the Cupcake Making Event for Women at MIT: Then a snapshot of the ... By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... problems, I could barely do any of them without first looking at the solution ... right. Last week, at a leadership training program called UPOP, one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014