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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... briquettes (a dense fuel dominant in developing countries). They can be used instead of modern fuel sources in electricity-scarce regions. I’ll spend

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ...   I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked ... electronics at decision release time and—in fact—forget about it until later ... button.[/annotation] In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... in the admissions office to craft questions and prompts that elicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  [annotation note="bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in ... , [annotation note='I suggest you go practice logging in there now, so that you ... password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... two high school boyfriends are both currently in PhD programs (pure math ... college textbook—and read it cover-to-cover. In seventh grade, he begged and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... this! Classes CMS.701 Current Debates in Media taught by Ed Schiappa Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when ... wrong was when I woke up and saw light streaming in from my window

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... meant putting down whatever mess going on in my head into words and making ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I ... seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I ... asked me during CPW back in 2019. “21E,” I said, thinking that every

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  decision-conscious, whether that be congratulating those who got in or ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort rejection or the long waiting period in between. But do know that you are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  virtual vigil. As the announcement for the vigil read: We gather in the wake ... , faculty and staff will lead us in prayer and reflection. The speakers at the vigil included, in order: Institute Community and Equity Officer John

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse ... occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... . Here in Cambridge, where masks are now required outside, casual

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was ... this in some respect; you're chilling with some friends late at night ... suitable for children in the slighest. be careful lol

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of ... lolo's famous orange tree and calamansi tree. There in that house lived

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Confusion. Fear. When I first received news about the tragedy in New Zealand ... and defenseless as it could get. Weeping because in this incredibly ... . Classmates, friends, colleagues came together to offer comfort in their

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019