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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... sound and lights and set and orchestra. Finally at the end of IAP we had ... Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... sense of deja vu. I had done this before. I had searched a name like this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their lives, even if they live an ocean away. I call my mother at least once a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was ... (samples at the market, grabbing a couple grapes out of the bag on the train

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of ... small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  haven’t. However, at the time, my part 2 of my MIT application was ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty-year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take ... .002), and Fundamentals of Programming 6.101(6.009) at the same time on top of ... the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... eighteen-year-old mind didn’t realize that this application was the first of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  feet. Talking to Prof. Reddien reminded me of this a lot. At MIT and at ... -up routine at an open-mic night? Who knows. For those of you who were admitted ... weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable ... , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  control of the classes and everything else that gets thrown at us and making ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed out of my mind. I am taking not one, not two, not three, not four - FIVE

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  this to love, in that a loved one can be a source of rest, but at this ... ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the ... During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... greatest number of times. [caption id="attachment_41597" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my first semester at MIT is ... , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... qualitative aspects of civil engineering, rather than the hands-on aspects

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did stay up until 4, what with none of my classes this semester starting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  of The Oatmeal).  I got an awesome time at that one, around 1 hour 50 ... . December 31st of 2015 was my last day of work at Triad Speakers in Portland ... REGARD FOR THE PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES OF OUR ACTIONS! Look at that thousand

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  envelope to open at the gate, which contained photos of my parents, my sister ... that window, I'd never seen such a massive place. At the entrance of ... friends at MIT, and Rafael, the boy at the end of the hall, who I now know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022