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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (then) recently released new concept for the Iron Man comic series, a 15 ... the steadicam for the Lobby 7 footage. Lastly, we needed a cast

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  a stressful process, since there's so much competition vying for ... , maybe a dorm is a good place to stay for your time here. Many people stay ... happen around the city and for once I don't feel like an intruder or a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  [annotation note="much more"]more[/annotation]about that…later. For now, a general ... in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... Vassar Street towards Kendall Square in the cold for a bit, and then took

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  listings and making a hypothetical schedule for yourself on WebSIS. 6 ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... that you are. As a proxy for having friends, there are the subject ... ; for example, register for eight classes and drop four of them. As a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... . After unpacking my belongings, I grabbed a stack of books and went for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... and Media Studies"--but that's a post for a later day. If you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for ... floor works for me. We're a cohesive unit, not just a bunch of people who ... I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... typo. Class years are wrong for anyone who took a gap year between when ... . Formally, for an event or truth A and an event or truth B, Bayes’ Theorem is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... grade were searching for schools with great reputations for a specific ... and make room for another ‘Safety’ school.” All of a sudden, this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One ... something like a "stay tuned for my next blog entry, after graduation!" which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years ... 'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for ... procrastinate if you haven't submitted a Regular Action application by January 1st

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  , if you ask me “Is there a group for students who are religiously ... ’t mind doing that for you, it’s not a really exciting question. If you ask ... ?! For real. If there was a crystal ball you could look into that would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... . There would still be friends hanging around campus, at least for a little ... has been harvested; it will lay fallow for a while yet. For the past

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... . Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... you came into some people's lives for a quick burst and then flaked out ... trying to bring people together to do fun stuff. For example, a few days

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024