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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... -inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... 've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in Berlin, teaching at a Deutsche Bahn summer school program. It was just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  complex story arcs and character development, and at the end of its 74 ... at young boys"]shounen[/annotation] and ends in a pit of darkness. It ... At long last...the [annotation note="anime/manga/general Japanese

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer ... less than a normal semester... read more at http://web.mit.edu/housing/undergrad/summer.html. Some folks choose to spend summers at fraternity or sorority houses

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  emotions at the time. The first day of snow finally came during Thanksgiving ... fell I finally felt at home again, with all the memories of building ... -needed peace of mind. This year, the snow has come at a much more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  morning shrine early days in senior fall

  

  this morning i was awake at 6am. on the other end of one of those ... , and the weight of my blanket is insisting that i don't have to be at my ... -magnet levels of pride. for some reason, when i look at it this morning, i think

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 15, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... of my classes. What went really badly? I was very terrible at keeping

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  at least as normal as things can be less than two weeks before the ... so yet. The MyMIT hardware failure did not affect the data of the vast majority of applicants. We have personally contacted the small set of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Hockey Aero/Astro 6 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1 Alumni goal: David ... nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction ... most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... sufficiently absurd, but at least they will (probably) laugh (or cry) at your pi jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... of us arrived at the Dave Powers Room in the Constitution Inn in Boston ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a proud cadet at Air Force ROTC Det 365

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  of signs of the ruling production, which at the same time are the ... increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  of alumni friends messaging you to tell you that their company could ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt ... major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  at 0530. I might have woken my roommates, but it was early enough that ... stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... understood what I was talking about at all, and Mrs. O'Brien told me I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms, whip out our new planners and notebooks and folders. It's a new academic

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  -inducing, sickening, almost surreal disbelief at the quantity of quality you have to ... Some friends and I were chatting the other day, marveling at how ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010