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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year, full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  along the lines of that I was a high school kid when I first heard of pix2 ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  nothing like senior year of high school. There’s nothing like working on ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  of school is to "teach you material."  Tight, clustered deadlines don ... proper base of training shifts your perspective of what's possible.   ... feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  than most of us and sleep less. MIT is an engineering school, but that ... I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  somehow isn't broken. The atmosphere was insane as a bevy of schools ... experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe-inspiring times of my life. That's no exaggeration -- my four days at MIT changed my

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... interdisciplinary work prepared by some of MIT's most noted energy professors detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... thinkers alike. It is a conglomerate of undergraduates and graduate students ... had been given a Director’s Grant from the Council of the Arts, as

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... to pursue both skating and school — all of it flashed by in an instant ... week of school. If it happened, if I still loved it, if I still had time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  horrible sense of direction. 71. I love high school. 72. I broke my leg once ... person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art school. 23. I love taking pictures. 24. I enjoy girls who are fake. 25. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  my favorite 30 seconds of the entire show (minimal spoilers present and ... scene, one of the antagonists appears and transforms into a titan. the commander of the protagonists sees this and shouts “keep on the lookout

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  several renovations. What does the bookshelf of an MIT student look like? Let's go on a tour! High School Yearbook For those nostalgic moments ... Comics Understanding Comics, one of my books for Toy Design. Nightwork

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out that none of them had any shows soon. and improv sounded fun. at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Representation of Yan ran into The Virtual Representation of Katelyn '12, who, incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway ... the unquestionable truths of Facebook status update. This was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  make to the civilians of Paris if a high school student from Portland ... these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022