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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make ... nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in ... ? A NERD? Why, I've never been called a nerd in my life! Good heavens

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my ... Attention Span Documentary: [annotation note="look at how the f and i in that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I ... admissions release date can spiral wildly out of control. I underestimate your ... said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... that I have at least 15 new dance videos in my subscriptions every day ... choreography?" ...and then I choose to watch the videos that fall in the

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

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the ... think I've made a lot of steps in the right direction and I'm really proud ... again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone ... sleeping bag into the little bag I had carried it in. Each precious second it ... desk in the Student Center before they leave. If I had gone to check out

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... technicals, and I really liked all the other students in my section! [caption

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I ... crying at night when instead I should be celebrating the fact I was in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  portfolio, but I have no means to send in the pictures of my work. Can a ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in ... will be finalized in November. Should I wait until the regular deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... , Sunmi, if you're American in - Me: I'M IN THE SHOWER! GET OUT! ... A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  change. I'm by no means bored with MIT but you can see how a year across the world can be enticing. So, in the true fashion of MIT students, I ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... , including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  workin vibes[/caption] Words can't express how much I enjoy living in this ... centrality in decision making. It can be stifling at times, but I mostly enjoy ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  grad student Andy is in Switzerland and I'm basically doing all his ... committee. I really like Professor Deutch's resume--he has a BA in economics ... change, Mitra--maybe you can lead the CIA too. So, I sat three feet behind

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  hours for 2 psets, although you can always pull an all-nighter," I tell ... don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the ... anything, all nighters are worth it for this reward. In fact, pressure can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  policy problems in general. I think what I’ve enjoyed most this month is ... in my mind even as I’m walking home from the classroom in Building 35 ... eloquent my classmates are… and in fact, much of the insight I’ve gathered

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  that went on at the same time. Here's a compilation of the ones I can ... I got to see what others write about in their amazing poems. I didn ...  The Tech, in which starting this next volume I will no longer be the Campus

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  can't say that I know the location of any in the surrounding cities. 3 ... freshman exams were the easiest ones." "Let's hope so!" "I could go in there ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006