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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  explain. A lot of it is tangled in details too personal for the blogs, but ... puberty, and I wasn’t always in the greatest mood. I was at a point of particular loneliness. The kind that learns to hide its face. I could wear a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  - and the best part is that I can accompany it with a story from my summer ... with a few of them and discuss majoring in physics at MIT. I realize that ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the ... and E&M). I'll note that I'm not a huge fan of math, but even I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  [annotation note="Scratch is a unique programming language in that it isn't text ... is a bad thing, but I wanted to make sure that I could help them out if ... I heard God say in that moment "This is your time, Camille," and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... in high school, I felt that it was less about a “game” or about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and ... Tiffany'12 and I went to a coffee-shop-diner-art-gallery that also served ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  . Dan and I showed up in lab to find a sleep-deprived Jared doing busy ... In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  unusual in that it’s mainly a notation convention, which is kinda fun. 7 ... , but rather numbered. Or that we introduce our majors by number (“I’m a ... not a [annotation note="realized after the fact that this is also a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  Chris Peterson once said, "rfong is a good photographer, and in order to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... about why sophomore fall is such a grind. We came to the conclusion that ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of ... music choices! That is all. Time to study for my test.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  , there is actually no traffic, a rarity in LA"]by 6:45[/annotation], so i ...  (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  a sense that I’d really learned a lot in those three hours. My ... me get on track"]doing homework in advance[/annotation] is a very good ... , I feel like that’s a good thing, in a sense? That way, I let myself

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car ... if your laptop isn’t covered in these? These are just a few that I was ... stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... Chris, I hope you are doing well during this challenging time. My name is ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  MIT tracking system. What should I do? A: Log in to your MyMIT account and ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: What do I do

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  such a way that we were closely tied to our heritage. Now that I live on ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  come together in such a way that the audience feels that it is immersed ... example of a change that was made.) But despite the fact that this play is a ... plot. Stagecraft has to do with everything in a play excepting the actors

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago ... write only in words besides the words that most people in this place use ... write. This is harder than you might think, as was learned by a man who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  I do in this area for a summer job?” Experimenting in College Stuff I ... The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017