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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  ." Elise Kuo '11 curses the rest of the cast as Mad Margaret. Designing the ... them to talk about how they rose to the challenge of designing the show ... use of color in the costume design. By choosing some specific images and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• 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

  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

  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 ... , prediction of stability Mechanisms, structures, design a synthesis Curved ... When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... major. Hanhan’s love for Course 6 is contagious! In high school, she ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  - you would soon discover that a regular high school courseload of 7 ... from high school in the back of my mind, "You should be taking the MOST ... (yes, I got to go to school for the last two weeks of my high school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• 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 / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... project like a graphic novel was doable during school. Still, I had time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... ’d totally rock an MIT-themed Family Feud episode. What do all of those have

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  throughout high school, so after a few months of settling in, I realized that ... designing sustainable packaging for a local business using our knowledge of ... This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  this year -- a number of suicides at "famous" schools made the news ... ’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. They are the editors of Mental Health Care in ... Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  school (elementary/middle school) and high school in Nairobi and was within a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... students need to take 8 Humanities Classes total, of which, 2 have to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  favorite parts of high school, and robotics is the main reason why I ever got ... of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just ... improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  . The Dean of the School of Humanities, Deborah Fitzgerald, already wrote ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... exciting, one of my biggest accomplishments during my time here has been my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1, we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now ... , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  The start of spring is an important time — not because summer is ... because the sun stays out past 6 pm. No, the start of spring means one thing ... games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025