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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  existence is the Stata Center (at least from a visual/artistic standpoint ... this week's MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was written by a cattle

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  such a break from how i’ve been viewing the world. how is it possible ... is our lives.”   iii. what does it mean to be a unicorn far from ... where it comes from. it is a confidence that i could really use right now

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... from a college application. When I wrote essays for undergraduate ... , that there are a million things to fix between my product from last

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  and awe-inspiring.) "I learned a lot of different things from different ... part of this stems from a) notoriously difficult problem sets combined ... entry this fall about getting help from a fellow dorm resident in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  sno-ball from a stand nearby. I stood in line. A man got in line behind ... pen from 1934. He smoked a hand-rolled cigarette and told me how he ... soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  there are"). For our purposes, this piece represents a shift from the ... object to go from spacetime coordinates A to B. That's the time that we ... wristwatch time from A to B is minimized." 3:01pm "Metrics in general

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  leave my floor?? (okay, my floor is amazing but i, a girl from a city 45 minutes away from Boston, feel like more of a tourist here than i did in ... college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  a talk from Steve Huffman, one of the founders of Reddit, and from ... involvement in many different clubs. I also met a lot of new students from other ... York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the ... I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  friends from Michigan, who is down there doing a Teach for America placement ... . Aside from the cabrito, I didn't really get a chance to have some ... manage to get directions from a friendly pastor in the parking lot. I also

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it ... still eat peanut butter and jelly out of the jar from a spoon. I still ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  As a person who hails from a land devoid of seasons, I consider it my ... our pumpkins (and nearby pedestrians) unscathed, and from there it was a ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  it. In the center is a large Roman tile mosaic from around 115 AD of ... is prohibited. If I had a mosaic from 115 AD I would want it preserved ... One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  should stay in contact with us. A letter, a phone call, notes from people ... aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've done a lot more running, I've read a lot of accounts from legitimate ... road and get a high-five from one of the hundreds of people there. That ... . So, I grabbed a free Subaru shirt from some promotional booth, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street ... ; the water went from a dark velvet to a milky pale as we twisted left ... against the very end of the bridge. it was a couple seconds from falling

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910 ... so watching and listening to a scene from Fidelio (notable because four ... from start to finish. Here at MIT, Professor Mary Fuller teaches a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CyOAO8y0 It’s a special day for me, because on the same day last year, I received a letter in my mailbox that would change my life forever ... application to a “Clown College” on CommonApp. Perhaps those car insurance

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  from Zoom University in a little under 3 weeks. Legend has it, when I ... and “events” are a bit dated now, showing their age from my chronic ... A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  and from the old man Siddhartha by a shadow, not by something real ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and ... during college i developed a method for watching shows very efficiently

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022