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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and ... , and that none of them were harmed in the making of this hack.   ... strangest and most exotic creature of them all: the wild, weird humans of MIT.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  microwaved ramen we ate last night while trying to finish slews of problem sets ... coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share of fun this month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"              ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial ... Sky Sculptures. Helium explores the “spatialisation of sensibility

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna ... these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: Alright, alright. Battle

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as ... spritely age of 11. I looked through the catalog of extracurriculars

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... . Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you ... sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... flurry of good-byes, hugs, and promises to keep in touch. But even those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to ... MIT portal for the locations and times of these events, and for a comprehensive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file ... prior to MIT. Jenn: I began playing piano at the age of four. Of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... to study. MIT had always kind of been that school for me but since I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to build a structure out of leaning colored scalene triangles sometime and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006