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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  -tripping to Vermont for a [annotation note="The Great North American Eclipse on ... the screen. My CS internship already involved me staring at a screen for ... imperfections. This time, I used watercolor (with a touch of white gouache for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has ... reexamine ourselves to ask if we are good enough not just for a school or a ... history of Stanford University. There's a lot else but that's a rant for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just register for, no questions asked). Gosh, I essentially wrote a love letter to ... pose for class a few times! It was really cool to work with real people

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad ... about my UROP for a while, but usually end up just UROPing instead as soon ... longer blog post about my UROP, so keep a lookout for more information

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  phrase has evolved to be a metaphor for an irrational method to obtain some ... yearning for face-to-face conversation or free food. It's a deeper craving ... 's a weekly-ish event, usually held around 10 PM, where we all come

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  junior who had lived on campus for a year and half before [annotation note ... for this project. On the animation side, Emily and Angela already had a ... collaborated on a project for Borderline called Asian Aphrodite around this time

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

  breathing in and out

  

  for mystery hunt, i can’t wait for it to happen, a lot of people are ... there’s a caller who gives instructions for everyone to do. at the plus ... to call for us. he had a great time figuring out what the instructions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  freshmen do, though -- you sign up for a million clubs, and in the end you ... For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit in at MIT if..." you love being miserable! Now wait just a second

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ’ contraption for the MIT Museum sponsored Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... and his breath shortened and for a moment he stood at the edge and the ... standing at the edge a lot recently. Or maybe it always seems that way but

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a ... was a problem for me in Intermezzo. Intermezzo follows two brothers, a ... for a real, substantive reason (which—yes—can be human weakness: fear

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  +1 for MIT MIT scores again!

  

  I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score!

  • by Bryan
  • August 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ’ve guessed. And the cherry on top? For dinner, we went to a restaurant that ... play some music as a group too. Luckily for us, the first activity of the ... , but kudos to them for doing so. We had a few hours of free time back at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... Mondstadt’s god has been gone for a while."] statue[/annotation] and gets the ... , whether it wouldn’t be easier to let go of that weight for just a second

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Admitted Students The Class of 2011 directory.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into MyMIT for the Class of 2011 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this entry's fresh comments space for more admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  conclusion, where, for the first time, there wasn't one. Was it a ... deal. It’s a cause for celebration, and I’m celebrating with this post ... those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  famlines; this is the famline i'm referring to! it's a nice way for alum to ... myself against the wall for a while because every time someone held my ... of my second lap, I even skated for a little longer and tried turning

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  requested for financial assistance. both were approved. it was a relief to ... giveaway that the undergrad association did, where we wrote a blurb for one ... portion of the results during the contest. to get full points for a problem

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  and more calculations to the spreadsheet, like a sheet for spirit ... ="this is a riff on the quote “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth,” which i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  construction of proofs. More demanding than 18.100A, for students with more ... from a few years back: Recently my boss left for another job, and I ... picked up just through the process of reading papers for this class. 21A

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021