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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  paintings." Little did I know, I would actually see these paintings in real ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... fluttering diaphragm in the heart of a speaker. Speaking of molecules, I ... nerd that I am, I freaked out and ran upstairs when I saw this in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... blog I would note that I was wearing spandex with pockets (!!) from Big 5 ... the forge, in coffee shops scattered from Denmark to Arizona. I was good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... -long void in my schedule or when I don’t have club badminton practice. But ... recording things. I tend to keep important dates and notes in my head, which

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.   ... killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... out. I thought that my friend Eric would find this amusing, so I took a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  , to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few foreign words I learned were more novelties than anything else. But now

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been ... ever read in my life. so it holds a lot of importance. i could go into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  got me with it and I knew I would use it one day. Soooo worth the 365 ... , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day it was. Smugness crept onto my face as I began thinking of what comical

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I ... there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also ... "meditation room" full of balls, which I loved being in. I spent a lot of

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... for a conference I’m presenting at in May. I had two other projects that ... dynamic language engineering class, and I would have been a stressed wreck

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  . Committee starts in February. If I was missing a teacher rec would I ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019