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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many ... , but that isn’t to say it is all accomplished alone. In fact, I had an

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... Annual Fall Fashion Free-For-All, an event where MIT undergraduates can come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I ... performances of Shakespeare plays in the Boston Common that you can watch for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... law school this fall. So when I saw this article in Technology Review, I ... surprised. It's the greatest job in the world. I'm really enjoying it." Links

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The ... ball for now. As you can see, robot A is in charge of scoring in the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I ... . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and ... deadline nearing I thought I’d add my two cents. Disclaimer: I do not work in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me ... companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who would I see, where would i go, etc. I figured that people would want to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  . It was then that I decided I wanted to do theater in high school. So ... to learn more, there's always a place where you can jump in and help a ... [by Harrison Bralower '11] It started with a sound board. When I was

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  éel at CNRS Salut! I'm spending my summer in Grenoble, France, at the Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in ... , Annecy, and Brugge (an idyllic town in northwestern Belgium). I spent last

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... better food. In 2000 I left JPL to try out consulting, teaching and ... I "really believed" in evolution. I had been complaining about this

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  wisdom dispensed by the slew of cruft blogs. Reading them, I can't help but ... I harp on in English about topics they’ve only ever found the words ... me for work every morning, or even some spare change so i can look

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  friends. Being lazy can be oddly draining in an unexpected way so I always ... know, though I am majoring in biological engineering, I am also a pre ... get in contact with alumni, among other things. You can sort through

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an ... practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... doing magic in that Papa Smurf Lab(I think that's what it's callled? Idk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... friends to do things that i want/need to do and sometimes they will say yes ... where i am when i'm just working somewhere on campus or hanging out by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my ... Waiting is hard. Waiting is incredibly hard. Well, I guess that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  lacked the common sense to know bottles go in the trash can. i take back my ... I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... the role writing plays in my own life: Yes, that you travel inside of. I ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I ... and giving somebody my seat, but I'm in the middle of the last row and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009