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• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  ="🤷"]something?[/annotation] A month passed and I still hadn’t thought of the idea but, as it ... animation, and I knew I wanted this year's video to be animated. So, I emailed ... by with no response, so I sent her another DM and it turns out I

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  ="a nice MIT perk is that you can just email most professors and they ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future classmates had learned and done. I’m still intimidated sometimes, now, but I ... which is positive and supportive and caring), other people’s skills don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am ... you see any errors, please let me know and I will fix it as best I can ... because I relish the time I get to spend spacing out and basking in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... 'm definitely down! :)" and reserved a ticket. A month later, Google Calendar ... !") but we squeezed and "sorry! excuse me!"d our way in. Flipping through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I ... Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I ... one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B ... and emailed me asking me to audition. As a shy freshman, even the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  restaurant right across the bridge in Boston), and talking. That's right ... talked and talked and talked and talked, until eventually, the subject ... bajillion mailing lists and never bothers to take themselves off of any of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and ... night, sometimes alone and sometimes with 40,000 English fans in K√ґln, and I have to say that just watching the game is way more exciting than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building 10 and Killian Court. No, really. Our audience included the Stata Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... trilogy, except with less irony, lower production values, and no Bruce ... "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  that I was "so, so tired," even though classes had just started. And then ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... . MIT was going “back to normal,” and I would too. This semester is worse

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  had helped choreograph, perform, and produce. https://youtu.be/VFJtkg5ieYk It was (and is) incredibly arresting and compelling video, and I ... , and I have reproduced it, unedited, immediately below. I put my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day ... last term, and the term before that, and also everything that’s happened ... 10 am physics lecture. All my sets are terrifying, and I’ve been

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  other friends, and I descended to begin the odyssey. We started brewing up strategies, designating some people to squares, and others to numbers. I was on number duty, and as it turns out, counting upwards is pretty damn hard

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 ... of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  for the last month or so, and every once and a while a [four days from ... spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it’d be gone. And I would be sad. Rinse, repeat. About a week ago, that “30

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="672"] Trampoline!!!! and also the ping pong ... , and 2 days ago they were finally unpacked. Inside was a TRAMPOLINE!!1 ... in Indiana that we got from our neighbors and I adored it so…until it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  After two long years, it’s time. It’s dark and raining slightly, the only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023