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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... very little time in big cities like Baltimore. So I begged local ... students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i ... Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all ... very video unfriendly shirt in this vodcast! (you've been warned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  itself clocking in at  3-4 Zelda OST, 2-3 Queen Songs The more I thought ... references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ...         I was making the trek from East

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me ... in words i’d say my biggest takeaway was a sense of freedom, a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  in precedented times, I really can't complain about my schedule. I do ... . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... I fit in ethnically at MIT. I've never really felt out of place, or

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version ... was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... in grisly detail, are incredible books that I have no choice but to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... really focus on me. I’ll reach this sweet spot where I can just take care ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... in Cantonese, a language I cannot understand. It was something about ... overhead involved in managing all of my daily tasks. I am on the verge of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... . In the beginning of the month, I was struggling to figure out how to ... ^12 cookies in one day, I hosted a Cutthroat Kitchen contest with some of my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... changed about the situation i was living in, i felt my bedroom grow a little ... , exciting!) the rhythm of life in simmons is, like i said, much like my life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like ... straightening and aligning and buttoning that can be awkward for someone in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved, the more I learned about every aspect of theater. In high school, I was

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  /received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails in the first half of the first semester, then I imagine that this graph ... your emails. Guess I’m just a sucker for Cool Data Things. In general

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  . PhD Comics Can't believe I originally forgot this gem! Called to my ... in less than twenty four hours... Doesn't it just make you wish you could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... until I was nauseous at [annotation note="all you can eat sushi place that ... , which was held in the last week before we were all kicked out. I took six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020