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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here. **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  ('14), a political science major and a worker at MIT's Rainbow Lounge ... doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... culture from all that I knew. And it was especially hard to figure out one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people ... the Share links, and I think, as I said before, that everyone won. But that was the beforetimes, and some things have changed. Facebook has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being ... I could have possibly felt as I sang and danced as Bail Organa, Lobot, an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... the beginning of the universe (read:Big Bang). In doing so they hope to ... rationalize gravity on the quantum level, and thus finish the standard model a

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

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... oftentimes very competitive summer internship cycles. And if you end up not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... more beautiful and mind-bending. Even without considering the weird ... an indie game developer. It's short, and totally worth playing even

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  perfectionist, not until the past several years. Perfectionism and high ... tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for ... though, and it guilt trips you into believing that you settled for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  degree afternoons. 6. I love the 18 year old drinking age. And the fact ... would always give me free muffins just because I'm Taiwanese and I try to ... love how lunch is at 2, and dinner is at 9. 4. I love how the stores are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience. Local Admitted ... Providence, Rhode Island, and as far away as Singapore. There will be meetings ... Francisco, Washington (both the state -- in Seattle -- as well as the District

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  huge, angry sun. Boston sunsets are always brilliantly red and beautiful ... the jog estimating that in miles-per-hour and minutes-per-mile. Hours later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 10% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 21% Abroad 11% States represented 49 Countries represented 63 ... , MA The one US state not represented: Wyoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on vacation ... . And below, I've provided answers to some additional FAQs: The deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and perspiration. I am probably not made for temperatures higher than eighty degrees

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... know that. Lots of things happened, and particularly this fall (what with, you know, starting at MIT). But time just keeps going, and I’ve more or

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  's a creative energy that drives and develops the "universe" of a media ... creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through ... means long meetings with production staff to determine the feel and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  's house and played Guess Who with the extra rule that you couldn't ask about ... think it would be viewed as strange if your person and Maria dated ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  native to the Indian state where my family is from, and [annotation note ... , this show did not meet my expectations. It did many things well and is ... issues that have prompted me to think about my culture and where I fit into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  my CPW! Interspaced between pictures of Boston and campus were other assorted pictures—midnight karaoke, bleached hair, and lots, lots, lots of ... ) [annotation note="I'm hosting this with my roommate! Come say hi and paint with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024