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• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note ... sense, I do have a task-management strategy, but to me it feels more like ... ," and "one hell of a class to go through." Some bloggers, however, seem to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... th century, so a number of motifs were developed to imply sexuality in ... fantastic a program as they’ve described it to be. I joined last semester

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  sitting in the storage room, waiting for me to find in the fall. I gave ... an MIT alum. I also made a surprise visit to my 5th grade teacher along ... cried some more, which was difficult to watch =( Ooh, I also got a chance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to ... didn't spend much time listening to music, she listened to a diverse

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... pull you down just like a sinking shipFloating is getting harderBut tread

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... baked them a cake. Unfortunately, I had turkey carcasses to attend to at ... specializes in cannoli, which they'll supposedly ship fresh to anywhere in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites ... unethical. So - thanks again to everyone who helped turn this wrong into a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it feels like to go to MIT. The blogs are not supposed to be a soapbox from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be ... this year), decided that it would be fun to put a wooden rail between two ... shocking pink hair!) and Sarah '08 wanted me to take a picture of them. They

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  get a cannoli And if you get a cannoli, you must find a nearby park to ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  enthusiasm stays with you forever. To dance, you must find a balance within ... , is of course, difficult to find at a place at MIT. There's just so much ... , enthusiasm is good," said Aaron. "But you need to find internal enthusiasm

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He was a Digital Effects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  day to write a long, thoughtful, and very personal email about how much ... I ever received was when a team of middle schoolers from Israel ... hard it is to grow a channel until you start. Then suddenly, you see

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  “Kendall Cube,” a popular area for MIT students to find summer internships ... students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... sometimes makes it a tricky character to deal with. There is now a small group

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... 're relatively simple to find."]All my hard work,[/annotation] from early ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad ... leisure. We moved the couch to a new corner, but that left its previous

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016