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• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  comments are so genuine and thoughtful, and it really makes a difference to ... , Jenny A.), and it was really cool to finally get to meet you guys. Minus ... I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... , if only life were always this easy. a love letter to polyhedral ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... month of work for 6.009, dropping your A to a C, and you still felt ... school but turned out to be a massive disappointment. You’re too lazy, too

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  incredible young people to realize what they are capable of. This is a place ... . A place where sleep regularly takes a back seat to the intellectual ... certain twinkle in the eye. A certain beauty to the tilt of their head when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  to care slightly more about my [annotation note="maybe I should do a ... poetry workshop being run this IAP I hope to be a part of, and I've gotten ... nonetheless. Someone cited my work recently at a conference I went to. Really

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research ... excited (maybe a bit too excited) to talk about the Institute's considerable ... from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  when she was a new tour guide. The following summer when I went to talk ... that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the ... gone by. So if you come to campus, I hope you'll take a tour. You won

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  4 years now. I'll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... Counselor on-hand or schedule a 20-minute appointment to speak one-on-one with ... :30 am A panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share their

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  the show, an audience member came to me and told me that he even felt a ... fact. With the help of notes and rhythms, we are able to paint a picture ... creating a work of art. And to create a brilliant work of art, you not only

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

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  unnerving. I went to a presentation yesterday. It was meant to shock CEOs ... forests?   It’s hard to go back home without feeling a certain anxiety. The ... Written early September after a presentation by Spencer Glendon from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... to a liberal arts college to study history, politics, and international relations, but couldn’t really pass up going to a school like MIT and still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week ... two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel, or a way to sink free time, to pursue things i find interesting like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  means to be an individual, as a lichen is not one being, but two: a fungus ... environment that the fungus and the alga came together to become lichen. 4. A ... — Spruce bark beetles are native to Alaskan forests, and have maintained a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Massachusetts. The journey would be 30 miles. We walked to a trail. We ... the 2 hours of sleep. I had wanted to take a break from work for a while ... . Plus food after walking a lot is god's greatest gift to man. There was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... well as to the dorm as a whole. East Campus residents weren’t always ... a statement with this, so one day, if you went up to 5E you'd see tens

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018