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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  is a doctoral candidate in Course 2. These designs makeuse of Emily ... been designing fashion for eight years. This look is a romantic fusion of ... defined by their mastery of rare tools, but by their mastery of common tools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  , especially because grade school tends to prevent intense pursuit of a single ... would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  MIT’s newest foreign language offered: Korean) I’ve covered most of ... school of education, Woodrow Wilson Academy. During the summer, I’ll be ... “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... , we’ve both always gotten new agendas at the beginning of each school ... our entire lives (at least during the semester). Lots of people use

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... , hundreds of freshmen are all around campus. Today, I saw Snively '11 from ... the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of ... the grind since my first year here, of course, and i've talked about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  a lot about the design and fabrication of complex machinery, then you ... I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  that i took ~15 flights, most of them crossing the Pacific ocean, with ... [annotation note="~60% of them were either cancelled and rebooked or delayed ... , the point is that I seem to be catching some of my bad luck again (my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered admission, there is a bit of role reversal as a new decision date approaches

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time ... , Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  juncture rather than grad school. And thanks to all of the tangible progress ... , and that I needed some form of exercise that wasn't just long walks with my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  because this is my 14th year of school, this is the first time in my life I'm not itching to go back out of boredom. School has always very much been ... Once upon a time in a land far, far away A group of schoolchildren

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So I register online and the second step of the registration tells me to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

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

  

  school Spanish class wasn't of the greatest calibre either. What would I ... degree afternoons. 6. I love the 18 year old drinking age. And the fact ... because of the way it is. My Last Two Weeks in Spain, and Thoughts: Doing

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

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  sleep. I met my host grandfather in my freshman year of high school, when ... I went to Japan⁠—which was every year of high school. the second and ... I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... 's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on. As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019