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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  foundations of observation, sketching, and color. In high school, I had the ... I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of ... On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students ... of street cred I have, I fear it must be discussed. Late last semester

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  shorter way of explaining this now, though, that I sent to my high school ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... different suite) every year so far. Not only have I painted all of these rooms, but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  school’s ultra-small math olympiad class, and spent a significant number of ... school semester, a stormy set of months that found me working past midnight ... -laden identity of “being on top” that might have defined your high school years

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... ’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto ... student office. About half an hour later, I found more pictures of Raphael: under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  deeper level of my UROP that I was working on during the school year in ... , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  https://youtu.be/1_YVXfSx0Q0 So with today being my last day of classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT was for me. For those of you that have been with me for the long haul

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new ... Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  fold clothes. I promise that the repeated act of folding one sleeve ... 've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  with another area of your choice, it's called 2A), I live in Next House (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... feels like we’re presenting a small town middle school science fair

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025