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• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole musical. expect a bad ending. hermes tells us this in one of the most upbeat

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  of CMU. I've never been much of a tourist, but if a friend was offering ... I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... last week of May, then I hope this will be helpful! I myself am pretty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... offer (blogpost on work and whatnot coming soon). There were days, though ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... picked the right major!   (An example of some ridiculousness from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork ... making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... specifics of academic potential are part of of match ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  victims of natural disasters. I myself am from Naples Florida and just got ... they will ever reach MIT nonetheless reach MIT in a reasonable amount of ... students who have been adversely affected by recent events. To all of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of course, when a ... went. But for this term, it was kind of a blur. I couldn't really think ... started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  by offering you a spectrum of opportunities. It's called Pilot 2021 ... how much I love/hate the current series of events, or praise ... of the Senior House community: Dear [insert name here], I write on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  offers in hand. Both were good. One would start with analysis of water ... down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands ... has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland ... sense of it. It was simply a train that wrapped around Disneyland to help ... all kinds of prehistoric beasts, and the Grand Canyon. (Which was kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... been retrofitted with an i7 processor, 256 GB of SSD storage, and 16GB of ... offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023