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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight ... results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... few months of MIT are tough for most seniors – we are torn between our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  the first day of classes, but before I get into that, we have some ... was part of the packaging of my brand new awesome laptop): OK, I find ... come grocery shopping? That way you can buy lots of big, bulky things and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa ... celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... ’s orchestra room door had a textbook version of these posters for their concert ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] btw this is 35 sheets of 17”x11” paper painstakingly de

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019