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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by ... tubes. I've also had to play a flugelhorn for the first time.  

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  Bonfire lounge was watching Mean Girls. This seems to happen a lot lately ... machine for 6.01 next to a disassembled puzzle.      One floor down is ... . ‘16 (the one menacing the camera with a nerf gun (who happens to once

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... felt and continue to feel good about the exam. There was a calculation I ... about. I'm a little rusty on my art history, but I was very excited to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... made a valiant effort to get through my backlog of games. Since freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  's science, suggestions for further reading, and other resources. A detailed ... of Student Pugwash. Pugwash exists to address the effects of science ... Revolution) and STS.310 (Introduction to the History of Science). If I had the

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... -year class). I was initially tempted to submit a blank sheet of printer paper ... .010 teaching staff had put together a list of review papers to help us find our

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... a state similar to stem cells, prefatory cells that can develop into ... , in essence, the closest thing in nature to a fountain of youth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  class here at MIT, because I have always wanted to travel to a Spanish speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to ... another to be able to speak and understand the language at a realistic pace

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... consulting to poker to baseball to politics a sassy Twitter fiend not afraid ... only a median and a mode; because no number would be mean to Nate Silver

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a ... the 10-minute walk to class. Overall, the class seems like a lot more ... gives me a chance to decompress every night.    Also, the class is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  recent events I've been meaning to blog about for a while - and well, I ... - it's a chance to adjust to MIT and learn the study habits you'll need ... . Remember that compassion isn't a prerequisite to becoming a professor at this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  's a real opportunity for it to become an actual product for Staples. 2 ... constantly working for each of those classes.   21A.100 (Intro to ... because Prof. Graham Jones is a super engaging person to listen to. He

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began ... and Wyoming to be in attendance. I was lucky to have a great group of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the office, which is always good.) Not to mention a few overnight train trips ... freshmen on hall this year, due to a housing anomaly that left us with many

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... suggest that you try to as well. Hopefully a short description of my ... . A pretty common question for people to ask me is where I’m going next

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  thought it’d be nice to have a little more runway throughout the school year ... talked to a couple companies, asked about which ones had opportunities for ... ’t help but feel a small bit of envy. At the time, it seemed to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... a long time for me to realize that jobs are jobs at the end of the day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021