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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... Dance Troupe president last year. Surprisingly, once you get an idea of the count, it's not that hard to follow. By the end of the 1 hour lesson

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  to eat. For more blog entries that begin with great food recommendations, browse on over to Mitra's blog (this week: Thai food at Chili Duck). After dinner, it was over to the Boston Common Theater, Boston's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  encourage students to get used to talking with them, they'll take any kind of ... to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate ... , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point ... to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of filing to be done. Doing all that filing reminded me of Being John

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  student — let's call her Jennifer — said she wanted to get a master's degree ... your chance to help them get to know you! Your statement of purpose ... purpose to get into Stanford: I want to teach English at the university

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and ... experience in class with people you’d never otherwise meet. Getting to see the ... aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  up, Sam McGee, another judge, who hopes to get students more involved ... mattress parts (springs, foam, and polyester liners) to get people to think ... semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  back and get it. So, we turned around, and pulled into a 7/11 to take a ... student center, to get her new ID card. And now I'm sitting on my bed. In ... research mentor to see if he was smiling or frowning. He was usually smiling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the ... [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm ... ’t seem to fit with anything. The latter is more specific to my own dorm

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  professors, from people in S^3 (if it pertains to getting good academic habits ... I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  and feeling full to the brim with celebratory joy, I started to get a ... pants. But there were still three more places to get through, and I began ... big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of it I’m just getting now, like Linear Algebra concepts from 18.06 that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  's especially frustrating when your TA can't seem to get powerpoint open; nobody ... stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs ... Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  —that I missed it. I missed getting the chance to make art with other people ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor ... quickly, almost feverishly, as I could to get down as much 8.012 knowledge ... . Because when you get right down to it, there's really no simpler way to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... -school counselors get together, they have plenty of stories to share about encounters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get ... ="aligncenter" width="251"] Kidist and I getting pizza in the North End in October! She (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot ... where the boat leaves and returns to. And the MIT Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016