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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  impart to you in one post. If you are a current MIT student reading this ... that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... students in general! Next Sing, MIT's newest a cappella group, was created

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  , but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch ... to Gambia and found a nice car and drove and drove and drove it back to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... I have when it comes to my ideal mate, I had a pretty hefty list of

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  but finding myself extremely distracted. This all came to a head ... are not a breeze, but not totally impossible; in particular, they are ... impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment"]a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  put in enough effort to where I felt a lot better with algorithmic ... to CS-based math in general. There was a fair share of referenced ... given topic covered in that class now, I'll still have to put in a lot of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... concerts and i’ve become a much better vocalist in the process, but… i ... , trying to find the right modes and harmonies and syllables, and still, why

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  where you need to be.” Yes, you should be yourself, but not in a ... anecdotes. Find a reliable proofreader. Revise, revise, revise. Try not to ... that I grew up in a community where I was able to even cultivate so many

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  Orchestra or Concert Band or other music groups. It’s a way to keep in ... ’s just a bunch of students having fun. In both cases, they came to MIT with ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  didn’t have the mental energy to talk or listen. it feels weird, in a ... ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  Harvard to learn Swedish (with the sole intention of using it find a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... in countercurrent. Redox occurs, there's a microfabricated nanoporous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few ... ) contribute to scientific progress (FREE PHONES) by participating in a study in ... say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of ... ... it's usually possible to find people up and around campus at any hour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... MIT account to find out the name of your EC, and to schedule the interview ... , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... to 2005. Here it is used again in a rather informative 2006 blog post ... proven here) and a good luck wish to all the prefrosh in the midst of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... -around puzzle to find a coin. Mystery Hunt is a big deal at Random Hall. A friend ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  five cookies in one sitting will most likely lead to a tummy ache ... transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always ... /no record was a great opportunity for me to experiment with my studying habits

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them ... course Professor is also a really big deal in the field and he still hangs ... : the best experts in the world in their respective fields come to our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  , Facebook was once an exclusively college networking site. A way to keep in ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a ... have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost ... Do Not Need To Live In A Fraternity To Feel Like You Belong. I live on

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... philosophy and a lifelong process. It requires you to first of all find out who ... I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012