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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  camera from scratch, in between classes and a summer job, I finished it in ... from the car. With a little help, I mounted the (roughly 20 lb) camera on ... [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... , and never a reprieve from the stickiness, even the second you shut off ... than a three-hour time difference. These adjustments are mostly positive

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  , from 9 AM to 5:30 PM four days a week (which I took last year). This ... - with MIT-EMS. MIT-EMS (Emergency Medical Service) is a student ... in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my ... , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe ... for ten movies, and also I was only one falafel away from a free falafel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  Browsing Matt's blog reminded me that I have a blogiversary on the horizon as well. A quick check revealed that I missed it - it was August 6 ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . From Kindergarten through 8th grade, I attended a small Catholic school ... family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its ... levels. Coming from a conservative, 90+% white town where diversity meant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  commentary from an experiment like this. In a subsequent blogpost, I’ll be ... challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... processing power, limited running time, limited accuracy. As a simple example

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  an example, this is a test question from 7.06 (cell biology) the year ... biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch next to a friend i know's been busy recently, napping peacefully, and taking a picture and sending it to him to tease him, reminiscing about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting ... ?" "oh, you know," i say. "the usual." every week is a cycle: lectures

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a ... I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester ... like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  've always had open comments on every entry. These blogs aren't only a place ... 's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math ... a few weeks before our application opens, there are some things you can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads ... -playing thing too - which is good because it makes me seem a bit more normal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  day, he participated in a panel discussion with MIT professors John ... . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art ... -making. (OK - a classmate just informed me that we could quite possibly be charged a lab fee ...but oh well, a sketchbook is a sketchbook!!! :P) The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ahead like infinite corridors. A year ago: I tried/ditched required

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After ... hosts a reception at his enormous hilltop mansion, "WestWind." The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008