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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , among other things) and the kids were all too eager to suggest ways for us ... fence foil and sabre (Thank you, MIT PE!) For "how to pick up chicks," I ... . The Multicolor Universe was a class that I've been wanting to design for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... to the GAMIT's review (and now I can proudly say, personal experience ... program I was applying to was looking for people who were passionate about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  for me to leave for vacation on a high note. (That's right, vacation ... around like a crazy person. I'll let you guess which one I work for. =) Anyway- tune in this Wednesday at 9 to ABC to watch and vote for the winner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  ’s hard to create a coherent thought for an entire blog post. Especially ... person that he wants to be. He’s not too strong or a boomer’s superhero. He ... unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... to all the course content but you do not need to do any work for the ... nice and accommodating, but was sometimes too smart for me to understand

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  :45 for fencing, and then sometimes go back at night to squeeze some more ... are also willing to play for five hours straight as well. truly a ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a ... be that anchor for myself. I'm grateful to have been welcomed back to ... a personal time capsule, immortalizing all my worries and hopes from

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... lab. It's nice to know I don't do it for the tangible rewards. :) MIT ... movies here. I will personally apologize for the quality of the airplane

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... looking forward to this trip for years, I spent the day mentally managing my ... bearings, I now understand that effort and care need to paid for something to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to ... to be stifling, but we found a way to rely on one another for ... hard for me to understand that there are people who aren't as welcoming

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  ’s really hard for me; it seems really Meta to me to not only make a body of ... the world, so then like, I guess it became more important for me to just ... look to, non-visual artists for inspiration. I really love Frank Ocean

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  .01, Intro to Neuroscience. This class has changed since I took it (for the ... appropriate person. Course 9 students are also required to take at least one ... MIT's BCS program is for med school?" Not being premed, I won't try to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  writing the first story for the class—I wanted to explore the feeling of ... note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts ... to sing, and, accordingly, put people into various duos and trios that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... about it. Then I had another plan for this blog post: I was going to build

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• 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 ... … Taylor Swift’s songs came to me for the first time at exactly the right ... ’t relate to as much, the vehicle for those songs that was her voice gave them

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

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was actually pretty astounding. He’d lost the ability to speak and, for that week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  Greg is going to come join me for the east coast version. Making things ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  analyze. Still, it was fantastic to finally talk to someone in person after ... interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... elections. From Dale's cousin's house, we returned to the hotel for our last

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to ... . For example, almost all the people I've talked to have been to the IMO ... 't even close to being considered for that test). And I felt exactly like

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007