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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  to give some thought to how people are going to get into and out of ... send home money to her family. Though it was written in the 1930s, we were free to set the play in whatever time period we wanted. I chose the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  prepared to take on my sophomore year having declared my major and settled in ... come back to campus but this time as an employee working in the ... I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in ... doors for a second chance to participate in this extraordinarily popular ... tank. It got infested with fruit flies, and we had to get it fumigated

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  Fenway in the massive crowds of people: And managed to snag some Red Sox ... , and Julianna was in the lead, we got lost. Lawrence, however, came to ... looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  helped them get to that stage. A perceived lack of gratitude is indicative ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  take advantage of every opportunity to get a full MIT experience. So ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

   real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  heading to the tunnels. If you're interested in learning more about/getting ... getting lost looking for events? Instead, get lost in this year’s Next Big ... opportunities to participate in student-run activities at MIT. Yeah that’s a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  to joke about engineering in ways that no one else understood. One time ... scores, so the group asked us to do it in our heads, claiming that we ... beginning to be a bit apprehensive of math (I'm in BC this year) even though I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv ... cool and probably from 2002 when Simmons was built. I tried to get a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn ... students who are matching in the same year are guaranteed to be ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from ... will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad ... —doesn’t take long to complete—and like my time in UPOP, the application provides ... than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  to use the remaining summer time to fall in love with the writing ... no idea how in the world senior year happened. This recently came to my attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  we get to meet leaders in Clinical Research in the Boston area, but ... , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify ... the lab to ask us questions and get to know us. 2.004- Dynamics and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets ... thing to note might be the trend in female applicants over the years ... directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  enroll in the program in their sophomore year and immediately get started ... capstone senior year NEET project. Along the way, students also get to engage ... Matthew Perry in Japan in 1853 with the purpose of “opening up” Japan to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018