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• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  , a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from Steven Universe a WHOPPING 3 times this year! I just want to say that Teresa listened to “Space Cowboy” by flipturn 230 times. That’s a 4 minute

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... absolutely crushed during my fall semester when I have to take it as a class ... "going to a dead guy's house," I visited the house of poet Henry Wadsworth

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  sounded agreeable, so I snagged a freshman (Trevor '13) and we went to ... Rush. Floor Rush allows freshmen to wander the different floors of a dorm ... , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a ... friend who was on his way to a job orientation for the World Wide Web ... be serendipitous. One day, he ran into a friend who happened to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  Vík's beaches. (1) Me enjoying myself at a stop en route to Vík ... a glacier lagoon and returned to Vík to stay in a cabin on the beach ... ) Ascending a ~*~very tall, very real~*~ mountain!!!!!! We returned to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... ) other schools do not have the time and resources to make such a class ... opportunity to work through the entire design process and end up with a nice

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one ... decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... , my determination to put aside art for more "serious" schooling had a ... -world equivalent to an Athena cluster. The class is conducted as a discussion of film

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  )... THROWBACK!   “Throwback to what?” you might ask.  Well the answer is a simple ... !  Here’s a preview to some of the McCormick events (along with their ... , popcorn, and snowcones! It'll be a night to remember! Night at Hogwarts

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  , a number I like much better. Feel free to add any Chuck Norris facts ... of a deadly asteroid. - It is believed dinosaurs are extinct due to a giant meteor. That's true if you want to call Chuck Norris a giant meteor

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... : Applying to college is a terrifying process. The applications are all filled ... years?" ("I'm supposed to know at 18?"), or "describe a hardship," ("this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange ... . And I chose to go to a city nearby and taste that heavenly sweet potato

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  are likely to cause a complaint, before any such complaint is received ... definition of copyright infringement to include hosting a single link to a site ... single link that goes to a site that someone accuses of copyright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... while I was at MIT. I wish I had been brave enough to make a point to ... followed up on a friend's suggestion to read American Gods, finally

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... “art kid” for so long, and I was afraid that going to a STEM school would

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  like something to someone I'm not familiar with feels like forcing a ... used to love in a self-deprecating way, like, "Oh man, my Undertale phase ... is a testament to that. I want to love things unapologetically. I want

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005