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• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  enjoy the sunrise. Stick a colorful flower in your hair. Say hi to the ... and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... overthinking. You end up having to sleep due to fatigue and most likely will wake

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  was in the presence of a true artist. He wasn't there to busk or beg, or ... over our footsteps and shouting in an otherwise silent and uneventful night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  year round, but I will try to write a bit more in the future, I think ... out of you to found another race. in the myths it's always unwillingly ... would be. how very many lives you must be able to hold in your hands, if

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top-notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  'm attached to: when you graduate from MIT, you die in real life. Implicit is ... went to a retreat with some friends, and I didn't realize we were in ... Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... we made an epic cake for him, but didn't have pictures to show until now. Requisite background information: his research project is to model

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  chunks go in the radial direction when it crashes to the ground? Answer ... . Now I must admit by the end of the evening, I did have a slight crick in my neck for staring up the whole time, but I still managed to have fun

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently rated among the best in the world. They include: Biology, Brain and ... interconnected neurons, give rise to our mind—our consciousness and ability to
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to ... that you need to come in a rocket scientist, not at all. But you will ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  lucky to live in a city that had 24/7-accessible rental cars. We were lucky to live in an area where the aurora was visible. And, we were lucky ... This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... 's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... being deployed to drastically improve the feasibility of solar power in ... out which produce is closer to ripening. in one of the labs we built an

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  is supposed to cap off your four-year experience in Civil and ... the project. They even said that if we happened to be in Miami during ... set, everyone in the class responds, “What time?” He’s never going to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  it would be a great way to continue my love for art in a, well, tech ... and attachments to art but everyone in FASAP seems to appreciate art and ... to the window. A few of us exchanged dubious looks before filing in

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions

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

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of ... A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the ... . She's equally (and differently) impressive in person. The whole night

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  to a pan and putting the dumpling in make sure to cover the pan so ... ; (special thanks to the toons) (and the gorgeous airbnb in new hampshire we ... make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A few years ago, for example, we challenged students to hack their tubes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016