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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Dudamel On music and becoming an old man
"Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... in 2009. Yep. Definitely not a musical instrument. I got a little ... little timpani player. "He's the best timpani player I have ever seen in an -
Blog / Academics & Research
Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT
Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... year you can a) stay in your dorm, b) move dorms, c) move into frat ... 's just a Q&A session, which I'll skip, in favor of you all asking -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY
While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!
closest-to-perfect space here at MIT. P.S.: I may remember more in a ... . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in ... “Essential Services” according to MIT Housing can be found here. Visit all 11 -
Blog / Blog Projects
8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20
around campus, dressed up in our Air Battle Uniforms (you know, the green ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn ... on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United -
Blog / Public Service & Activism
On election day Practicing an applied civic education
also wrote: In the coming weeks, I hope we will remember this feeling of ... personal consequences in their daily lives. Whatever the outcome, I very much hope that in our interactions with one another, we can hold -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography
-related things I’ve been enjoying in the past few months (numbered #1 because I ... building in nyc, I liked the way the light fell on its facade ... the original painting in person :O![/caption] I’ve really been -
Blog / Admissions
Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!
now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might be helpful to -
Blog / Admissions
CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…
Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you
. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the -
Blog / MIT Life
Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.
you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know? -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Being First is Important There can be many firsts
in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and -
Blog / Admissions
Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…
testing date might be able to reach us in time, but I've been told recently ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal about deadlines. Rather than give you my own "don't panic" advice, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.
As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... Agency (CIA) iRobot Biogen Idec Bose Goldman Sachs Veolia Water ... Kinsey & Company Microsoft ...and that's just a sampling. When I was -
Blog / About Decisions
I have SMASHING news!
on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say ... rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of ... paintings I have ever seen, complete with ancient inscriptions in a mysterious -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!
, so I can start testing my projections, which will be on the walls in ... familiar with the runway route and how to walk in sync at 115 BPM. I ... Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT -
Blog / Athletics
Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)
do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and ... Castle in the Air, and the ever-shifting cloud castle.) The one plane I ... production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that -
Blog / Personal Travel
welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post
it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream ... . I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in ... ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall. In a truly foolish moment, I only packed -
Blog / Academics & Research
Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP
-http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... my first IAP – which I’ll surely blog about in the coming weeks. • P ... to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due
