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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  the summer, and I was going to limit the number of external cycles I ... “compromise” with myself was that I wouldn’t sit as the chair of the REX committee; I would only be a member of the committee, providing whatever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... surprisingly large pool of obscure and random knowledge, and even more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I ... Security Administration, Stata Center, et cetera. This is not true of most ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... something that I could show them. Something that’s a perfect representation of ... . My parents and I alongside one of my friends and his parents.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  t-shirt. Photos of Paterno, the football team, and Beaver Stadium, signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... minute later. The photo was of Beaver Stadium, filled to capacity during a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  for this year's edition of Technique (the yearbook of MIT, since 1885 ... process so that everyone working on the book, including myself, was aware of ... means that the books should be in towards the end of April, with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email ... I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever ... story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out ... read this. Ben has put it more beautifully than any of us ever will.) ps

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of ... anything else you might need. While a lot of people who decide to be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... Conner 2 (2nd floor, Conner side of Burton-Conner dorm) and I no longer had

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , though, it evolved from a source of amusement into a source of irritation, even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s ... become something of a fashionable habit. I felt as though I couldn’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  researcher (or more likely, a group of researchers) behind the finding. Granted ... as being analogous to OpenCourseWare, featuring research instead of class materials. He elaborated by calling it something along the lines of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... , your personal worth is determined by your workload: your lack of sleep, your berth of problem sets, your number and difficulty of major. Your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... shots around this joint. The sort of puzzling thing is that nothing that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006