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• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... ’t really give out a lot of advice on these blogs. A year ago, on a post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton, to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is ... first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  to the boy I thought was the love of my life, or goodbye to the boy I thought was the love of my life. I've spent these past few days revisiting ... walk by the food court in The Source and only see shadows of past selves

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands ... -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... ? Pretty much the same kind of nerdy conversations, only this time I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  intervening time, I have accumulated like 5 entries worth of photos and stories ... decisions were just recently released. First of all, congratulations to all of you who were admitted! I remember getting my decision- the old

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the earliest MIT ... of 2005. First of all, I’m running the Boston Marathon in April! I ... context of a human rights-related field, doing mostly national-level and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... body of water[/annotation], the only things I knew about Boston before ... . Growing up, I just had no preconceptions of what Boston was like how L

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... the ease of wellness when the fall term comes around, but I know I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... , but their MIT -- full of friendship, companions for psets and for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... value contrast is nonexistent. A couple more layers of paint could make it ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of the episode’s dialogue remains true regardless of whether you believe in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• 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 ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with

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

  blind spots on privilege

  

  to do it. There are classes of all varieties from bookmaking to ... entry to [annotation note="the Museum of Fine Arts"]the MFA,[/annotation] [annotation note="the Institute of Contemporary Arts"]the ICA

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston ... 's blogs that overanalyze the heck out of everything."]contemplate anything

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... ="73497" image2="73498" image3="73503" /] Department Events Every Pi Day, lots of ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives ... aside, I’ve obtained an above average number of body pillows this past

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  the notion of squad wealth has been increasing in popularity recently ... : we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value and support by organizing into small squads of people that hang out a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021