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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... to sing a lot?" Boyfriend: "Not really...but she has a really big ... I will those three sunrises. Rewind a bit to music rehearsals, back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most ... , changing those walks to speed-walks was a fairly simple transition. Most of ... night’s Christmas party!” - Due to a cold front, it was a freezing 50

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... certificates and say a few words about the week. Touching would be a good way to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a ... time to get stuff done. I'm just glad I'm a freshman- I feel no pressure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up to a course I took last term called 4.S10 – Delhi and Jaisalmer: An

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered ... Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a ... went to a rather STEM-heavy school like MIT. I think I took enough

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... . Iowa became a distant memory as I talked to my old friends less and less ... 'd have more time to talk. And then I graduated, and I went back to a house

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... needed. for a while we thought we’d need to run the av and next sing sound ... next sing speaker to serve as a monitor during the concert (a monitor is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem ... up. Then I remember I have a lot of idiots to prove wrong” (Stanley

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such ... education, I felt compelled to try. So Stephen, a few of us here at ... Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to ... Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... is that we have a tendency to want kids to look alike. We want them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... tower of Mitra. Hidden talent #73: Having a thigh that appears to be ... , we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the ... : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it ... invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We ... there was a whole toaster sitting next to the microwave, and when we did

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  its kind. There are lots of ways to view Mystery Hunt. I gave a brief ... contestants solving hundreds of puzzles. One way to view the Hunt is from a ... graduation years."]Brian[/annotation] wrote a more detailed introduction to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  , as a way to remember all of the things that had happened. Brain dumping ... thoughts it was to a narrative, trying to tell the story of what it was like ... went from a normal college existence to leaving campus because of a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... , to which I responded with some hesitation (to be exact, a few months of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it ... the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In ... just can't wait. I can't promise a McGannesque liveblog, but I'll try to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007