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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... learn things more closely aligned to our interests in our last semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  obstacle that has affected my educational journey?” However, it was asked in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... in school? That last question came from a student at a high school

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... who have helped me in countless ways, one of whom even took the time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Institute of Technology next year. In addition, he will play baseball ... cards in Las Vegas. Although such an unorthodox use of mathematical ... university in Cambridge. "They do things there that haven't been done before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  decir "la noche madrileña." In other words, I'm totally settled in ... Telefónica in Madrid. Well, I got here last Saturday, so I've been living here for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The longest recorded kiss took place in New York City ... saw that Mountain Dew commercial that used "Tonight" in it. Looking back ... the famous statue of Freddie Mercury built in Montreux, the site of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... had 530 kids in it, but there was a small core of smart kids who had been together ever since gifted class in fourth grade. My high school was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... you there and not someone who'd rather be in a coed living group ... ?" Michael Borohovski helped me out by answering: "Anonymous (re: waitlist), in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  Back in September, when Shuli introduced the baby bloggers, they ... students attend MIT from each state in the US, so knowing that number is not ... ="myself included"]three South Dakotans,[/annotation] since we had all gotten in from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... makes the "everything else" of our lives mundane and unimportant, in a way

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize ... me, many times over. It turns out local graduates in my field are

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In ... ="alignnone" width="300"] Sunrise at the harbor in Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Canadian road trip and spent our days chilling in the woods. Here are the ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But ... rides with my friends. We blast tunes, indulge in snacks, and share

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last ... interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning ... /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  bubbling in each character. My friend responded, you claim you don't know but ... by Elena Ferrante, a book that feels inscrutable. It is about a girl in ... . The narrator's high-status father engages in an affair with her best

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions ... in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in ... heavily on the upperclassmen in my living group and clubs. i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without ... inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii ... probs have in your room Finally wash that water bottle that’s been in your

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021